HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1761

(a)  Payment of cost. [The] PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS SECTION, THE District [is hereby authorized and empowered
to] MAY pay all or a part of the cost of any project or
improvement by the imposition of special benefit assessments[, in
the following manner, upon] ON properties specially benefitted by
any such project or improvement.

(b)  Procedure. At least [sixty] 60 days [prior to] BEFORE
the beginning of each COUNTY fiscal year [of the County], the
Secretary-Treasurer of the Commission shall prepare and submit to
the Commission schedules [showing the following] THAT SHOW:

(1)  A list of all projects and improvements completed
during the then current fiscal year for which special benefit
assessments have not been imposed and a list of all such projects
and improvements which will be completed during the first [three]
3 months of the next succeeding fiscal year;

(2)  The actual or estimated cost of each such project
or improvement which may be determined on the basis of a
percentage of the cost of several projects or improvements
completed in subdistrict in any [one] 1 year, and the proportion
of [such] THE cost paid or payable from the proceeds of bonds
issued by the District;

(3)  The total principal and interest payable to
maturity on all such bonds and an allocation of [said] THE total
among [said] THE several projects and improvements in the
proportion shown in [subparagraph] PARAGRAPH (2) [above] OF THIS
SUBSECTION;

(4)  A list for each [such] project or improvement of
all SPECIALLY BENEFITTED properties [specially benefitted
thereby, as herein defined, showing] THAT SHOWS the number of
front feet of each such ASSESSABLE property [assessable
hereunder] and the appropriate classification or
sub-classification of each such property.

(c)  Computation of assessment. Promptly upon receipt of
[such] THE information, the Commission shall determine, with
respect to each project or improvement, the proportion of the
amounts TO BE allocated [thereto] under [subparagraphs]
PARAGRAPHS (2) and (3) [above] OF THIS. SUBSECTION which it is
equitable to recover, through special benefit assessments, from
the SPECIALLY BENEFITTED properties [specially benefitted] and
the proportion [thereof] which shall be payable from taxes or
other charges FOR WHICH PROVISION IS MADE [hereafter] in this
subtitle [provided for]. The Commission shall then divide [said]
THE sum [so] to be recovered from special benefit assessments
among the several classes and sub-classes of property benefitted
by each [such] project or improvement on the basis of the
relative estimated benefits which [each such] THE class or
sub-class of property will realize from [said] THE project or
improvement[, and the]. THE Commission shall [then] determine
the annual benefit assessment per front foot for each class or