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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 767

(1)  [shall at any time] SHALL permit a
connection with a water main or sewer by a property owner
whose property does not abut on the water main or sewer and
who has not previously [thereto] paid a benefit charge for
the construction of the water main or sewer;

(2)  [provided the commission shall] SHALL
classify the property and determine a front foot BENEFIT
charge to be paid by the property owner at the rate and for
the same number of years as though [his] THE property
abutted upon a water main or sewer constructed in the year
in which the connection is made;

(3)  [and in the event of such] IF THE connection
[being] IS made the property owner and the property, SHALL
STAND as to all charges, rates, and benefits[, shall stand
in every respect] in the same position as if the property
abutted upon a newly constructed water main or sewer;

(4)  [In the event that at a subsequent date] IF
water or sewer lines THAT ABUT THE PROPERTY are constructed
AT A SUBSEQUENT DATE [so as to abut such property, the
commission], may require the owner [thereof] OF THE PROPERTY
to connect to the abutting line and discontinue service from
the [non-abutting] NONABUTTING line[, but so long as]; OR

(5)  WHILE the property is in the same
classification as when the [non-abutting] NONABUTTING
connection was made, MAY NOT ASSESS FOR THE NEW ABUTTING
WATER MAIN OR SEWER AND the prior assessment [shall stand]
STANDS [and the property shall not be assessed for the new,
abutting water main or sewer].

[(h) The provisions relating to the collection of the
front foot benefit charges as they existed prior to April
26, 1927, shall remain in full force and effect for the
purpose of the collection of any of the front foot benefit
charges due and accrued prior to January 1, 1927, and the
repeal herein of the provisions shall be taken only so far
as they relate to the collection of front foot benefit
charges due and accrued subsequent to January 1, 1927.

(i) All of the front foot benefit charges levied by
the commission prior to June 30, 1965, shall be payable on
the first of January of each year, beginning January the
first, 1927, and all front foot benefit charges to be levied
by the commission after June 30, 1965, shall be so levied as
to begin January 1st or July 1st next succeeding the date of
the order making the levy. The commission shall collect,
however, under the provisions of the law existing prior to
April 26, 1927, all front foot benefit charges due and
payable January 1, 1927, in the Chevy Chase and Seat
Pleasant districts.]

COMMITTEE NOTE: Former Article 67, § 5-l(h) and (i) are
proposed for repeal as obsolete, except for the