Ch. 67                            LAWS OF MARYLAND

Approved April 14, 1987.

CHAPTER 67

(House Bill 185)

AN ACT concerning                                 

St. Mary's County - Metropolitan Commission -
Assessments for Improved Service

FOR the purpose of altering the conditions under which the St.
Mary's County Metropolitan Commission is required to assess,
collect, and redeem certain benefit charges when a water
system or sanitary sewerage system is improved; and
generally relating to benefit charge assessments by the St.
Mary's County Metropolitan Commission for water and sewer
service.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County

Section 113-9 K.

Article 19 - Public Local Laws of Maryland

(1978 Edition and July, 1985 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 19 - St. Mary's County

113-9.

K. [Where a water main or sanitary sewer is replaced or
augmented by the Commission] WHERE THE COMMISSION IMPROVES A
WATER SYSTEM OR SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM BY REPLACING,
AUGMENTING, UPGRADING, OR EXPANDING IT in order to provide
increased OR IMPROVED, water or sewer service [capability to
abutting or connected properties], and the necessity for the
[enlarged replacement or augmentation] IMPROVEMENT arises from
changes, whether individually or cumulatively, in use or zoning
category of the property [to be abutting or connected], those
properties shall derive a benefit from the [enlarged or
augmented] IMPROVED facility[, and benefit]. BENEFIT charges for
the construction, as part of the water or sewer system services,
as applicable, shall be assessed, collected and redeemed, where
applicable, as provided under § 113-9B, E, F and G for the
initial construction of the [enlarged or augmented] IMPROVED
facility. Thereafter, any unpaid portion of the initial benefit

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