HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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water main, until such time as a water or sewer connection
is made, and when so made and for every connection such land
shall become liable to a front foot assessment for such
reasonable frontage, not exceeding three hundred foot front,
as may be determined by the commission, and shall be
immediately assessed at the rate of assessment determined
upon by the commission for agricultural land. State, county
and municipal buildings or property or public parks or
playgrounds owned by a municipality, and any property or
building owned by. a regularly organized volunteer fire
department, while so used for such public purposes, shall be
exempt from the imposition of a front foot benefit charge.]

(B)  (1) THE WSSC MAY NOT IMPOSE OR COLLECT A FRONT
FOOT BENEFIT CHARGE ON:

(I)  STATE, COUNTY, OR MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
OR PROPERTY;

(II)  PROPERTY IN THE SANITARY DISTRICT
THAT IS CONNECTED TO OR AUTHORIZED BY THE WSSC TO BE
CONNECTED TO A PUBLIC WATER OR SEWER SYSTEM OPERATED BY A
MUNICIPALITY OR BY A WATER OR SEWER COMPANY UNDER THE
JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE;

(III)  PUBLIC PARKS OR PLAYGROUNDS OWNED BY
A MUNICIPALITY;

(IV)  PROPERTY OR BUILDINGS OWNED BY A
REGULARLY ORGANIZED VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT IS USED
FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES; OR

(V)  LAND CLASSED AS AGRICULTURAL THAT IS
ACTUALLY USED FOR FARMING OR TRUCKING PURPOSES, UNLESS A
WATER OR SEWER CONNECTION TO A LINE RUNNING THROUGH OR
ADJACENT TO THE LAND IS MADE.

(2) THE LAND THAT IS CLASSIFIED AS AGRICULTURAL
IS SUBJECT TO A FRONT FOOT ASSESSMENT FOR A REASONABLE
FRONTAGE, AS DETERMINED BY THE WSSC, NOT EXCEEDING 300 FEET.

(C)  The [commission] WSSC may SUSPEND [further provide
for a hiatus in] the imposition and collection of a front
foot benefit assessment:

(1)  [for] FOR any property THAT IS otherwise
assessable with respect to a sanitary sewer line [which] IF,
IN THE WSSC'S JUDGMENT, THE property cannot [in the judgment
of the commission] obtain service from the sewer pipe upon
which the benefit would be based[.]; OR

(2)  [The commission may provide for a hiatus in
the imposition and the collection of a front foot benefit
charge for] FOR water main construction when the owner of
the property THAT IS otherwise subject [thereto under the