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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 205

Article 6 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1965 Edition and 1975 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of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as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 6 - Caroline County

468.

The County Roads Board is hereby authorized to
construct and improve roads and drainage incident to said
construction or improvement on or along private roads, after
the approval of a petition of the owners of a majority of
the front footage of properties abutting on the road
proposed to be constructed or improved. In the exercise of
the powers granted by this section, the County Roads Board
may adopt all necessary rules and conditions for the
acceptance, construction, and maintenance of such roads
and/or other authorized improvements by the county. Such
rules and conditions may also provide for annual benefit or
front foot assessments to be levied against the abutting AND
NONABUTTING properties for the purpose of reimbursing the
county for the cost of such improvements and the time and
manner of payment, but not to exceed ten years. HOWEVER,
NONABUTTING PROPERTIES SHALL BE SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS ONLY
WITH THE CONSENT OF ALL THE OWNERS OF THE NONABUTTING
PROPERTIES AGAINST WHICH AN ASSESSMENT IS TO BE LEVIED.
Annual benefit or front foot assessments shall be a first
lien upon the property against which they are assessed,
until paid, subject only to prior State and county taxes,
and if any property be sold for State and county taxes, and
there remains a surplus, then the County Roads Board may
upon proper petition to the Circuit Court be allowed the
payment of its lien.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 1, 1979.

CHAPTER 206
(House Bill 1785)
AN ACT concerning

Caroline County - Treasurer