3114                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 675

reasonable and fair. Wherever there are a number of lots in the
same block in one (1) ownership appurtenant to a residence, the
Commission may give a continuous frontage to all of the lots,
regardless of the streets upon which they face. A corner lot in
the Subdivision Residential Class of less than two (2) acres in
size may not be assessed on more than one (1) side, unless it
also abuts on two (2) parallel streets, but the frontage assessed
may be that determined to be reasonable and fair by the
Commission, giving consideration to the frontage towards which
the building on the lot would naturally face. Lots running
through with front and rear on separate streets may be assessed
on both front and rear. Any of the lots in the foregoing
categories may be assessed for their full frontage even though a
water main or sewer may not extend along the full length of any
boundary. Land classed as agricultural by the Commission, when
in actual use for farming or trucking purposes, may not be
assessed a front foot benefit when the agricultural land has
constructed through it or in front of it a sewer or water main,
until the time a water or sewer connection is made. When so made
and for every connection, the land shall become liable to a front
foot assessment for a reasonable frontage, not to exceed a
three-hundred-foot front, as may be determined by the Commission,
and shall be assessed immediately at the rate of assessment
determined upon by the Commission for agricultural land. Public
parks or playgrounds owned by a municipal corporation and any
property or building owned by either a regularly organized
volunteer fire department or a volunteer rescue squad, while so
used for public purposes, are exempt from the imposition of a
benefit charge. The Commission may provide further for a hiatus
in the imposition and collection of a benefit assessment for any
property otherwise assessable with respect to a sanitary sewer
line, which property cannot, in the judgment of the Commission,
obtain service from the sewer pipe upon which the benefit would
be based. The Commission may provide for a hiatus in the
imposition and the collection of a benefit charge with respect to
a water main when the owner of the property otherwise subject to
it under the provisions of this section is not permitted to
connect to the water main by the Commission on account of the
absence of a sanitary sewer or finding by the County Health
Department that a septic system would not be approved for the
disposal of the water for which the connection is requested and
the extension of an improved sewerage system is not reasonably
feasible. The suspension of the benefit charge shall terminate
at any time that a connection with the Commission's sewer pipe or
water main, as the case may be, is made by the owner of the
property. Upon that occurrence, the property shall be classified
and the benefit charge shall commence and be collected as
hereinafter provided with respect to land or property for which
benefit charges had been exempted or suspended initially and the
exemption or suspension is no longer applicable. If property in
the sanitary district is, at the time of construction of a
Commission water line or sanitary sewer line, connected to a
public water system or public sewer system operated either by a
municipal corporation or by a water or sewer company subject to
the requirements of the Maryland State Department of Health and