BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

1717

(Senate Bill 952)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County - Annual Benefit Assessments

FOR the purpose of altering in Charles County the method by
which annual front-foot benefit assessments are billed
and paid; permitting unpaid annual benefit assessments
to be collected by a tax sale of the property against
which they are assessed; clarifying language; and
generally relating to annual benefit assessments in
Charles County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 78B(j)(6), (1) (2), (3) , and (4)
Article 9 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1969 Edition and 1977 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Article 9 - Charles County

78B.

(j) (6) Connections[; payment of assessments]. The
County Commissioners may at any time permit a connection
with a water main or sewer by a property owner whose
property does not abut on a water main or sewer and who has
not previously paid a benefit assessment for the
construction of the water main or sewer provided, the County
Commissioners classify the property and determine a
front—foot assessment to be paid by the property owner as
though the property abutted upon a water main or sewer; and
if the connection is made, the property owner and the
property as to all charges, rates, and benefits stand in
each respect in the same position as if the property abutted
upon a water main or sewer. [Front—foot assessments shall
be payable at the office of the County Commissioners or such
other place as they may designate immediately upon being
levied, and shall be overdue and in default after 60 days
from that date of levy at which time the County
Commissioners may proceed to enforce payment thereof; and
the assessment and any judgment or decree obtained as a
result of default in the payment thereof shall bear interest
at the rate of 1/2 of 1 percent per month from and after the
time the assessment is in default. ]

(1) (2) [Charges] BILLING ON PAYMENT OF CHARGES;
CHARGES to constitute liens.