HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3109

Whenever the state, county or any municipal
corporation, commission, board, or agency of the state or
county except the Housing Opportunities Commission of
Montgomery County acquires for public use property which is
subject to a front foot benefit charge levied by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, the benefit charge
shall be paid and extinguished by the payment to the
commission of a sum necessary to pay off [said] THE benefit
charge, computed in accordance with requirements of section
5-1, and [said] THE sum shall become a lien against the
property. Front foot benefit charges levied against
property acquired by the Housing Opportunities Commission of
Montgomery County shall be paid in the same manner as by
nongovernmental property owners and shall remain a lien
against the property. If the Housing Opportunities
Commission of Montgomery County allows front foot benefit
charge payments to become delinquent, the County Council of
Montgomery County shall authorize and appropriate sufficient
funds to pay the delinquent charges and all penalties and
interest on the charges no later than the first month of the
next succeeding fiscal year. The County Executive of
Montgomery County shall promptly pay over to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission all funds so appropriated.
When the property is acquired as aforesaid without eminent
domain proceedings the amount necessary to pay and
extinguish the benefit charge shall be paid to the
commission before the deed evidencing the transfer may be
recorded among the land records of the county wherein the
property lies. If the property is acquired through eminent
domain, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission shall be
named a party to the proceedings and the jury shall make a
separate award in favor of the commission for the sum
required to pay and extinguish the front foot benefit
charge. If by oversight or mistake the commission is not
named a party to the eminent domain proceedings or if no
separate award for the sum necessary to pay the front foot
benefit assessment is specified in the jury's inquisition,
then the condemning authority shall pay to the commission
the amount required to extinguish the front foot benefit
assessment at the same time it pays the amount awarded to
the property owner in the proceedings.

6-1. Determination, uniformity, payment and disposition of
connection charges generally.

For every water and sewer connection, as provided under
section [83-74] 3-4, [said] THE commission shall make such
charge as it shall determine to be reasonable, which charge
shall be uniform throughout the sanitary district for
connections of those sizes and classes for which average
cost reasonably may be ascertainable, and the actual cost
for all other connections, subject, however, to a revision
annually by the commission. [Said] THE charge shall be paid
by all property owners at the office of the commission
before the actual connection with any pipe or private
property is made. One-half of the revenue, above actual