Ch. 227

LAWS OF MARYLAND

costs as the county determines to be necessary to conduct the
studies, the director of sanitary facilities shall have the
studies made and within a reasonable time thereafter advise the
BOARD OF county commissioners who shall thereafter advise the
applicants of the results thereof, together with the county's
determination with respect to the application.

19-18.

(g) The annual benefit assessment or other charges as above
specified shall be a first lien upon the property against which
they are assessed until paid, any statute of limitations to the
contrary notwithstanding, subject only to prior [state] STATE and
county taxes. If any property on which there is such a lien is
sold for [state] STATE and/or county taxes or both by the
treasurer of said county; and if after sale there is a surplus
after all costs and expenses incident to such sale shall have
been paid, then the county upon proper petition to the circuit
court for said county shall be allowed any balance from said
surplus, and shall be a preferred lienor to the extent of its
lien; and for the purpose of giving notice to the general public
as to existing liens and charges against any property within the
sanitary district, the county shall keep a public record of all
names of owners of property, locations of said property, lot
numbers when of record, and the amount of such benefit charges,
water service charges or such other charges that may become liens
from time to time. Said records shall be kept in the county seat
of government and among the land records of Cecil County, and the
clerk of the circuit court for said county shall furnish such
space as may be necessary to keep and preserve such records,
which, when recorded in the land records, shall be legal notice
of all existing liens within the sanitary district. If any
liens, benefit assessments or other charges remain unpaid for
sixty (60) days after becoming due, they may be collected by an
action of assumpsit or by a bill in equity A CIVIL ACTION to
enforce such liens, and any judgment or decree obtained, where
the defendants have been served by subpoena, or in any other
manner provided by law, shall have the force and effect of a
judgment in personam; and the county may sue, or file a bill in
equity to enforce such liens against the owner of record at the
time said levy was made, or the owner of record at the time said
suit is filed or any owner of record between said dates, and
publication thereon shall be notice to all persons having any
interest in said property. If any liens, benefit assessments or
other charges shall be not paid within any fiscal year, the
county treasurer shall, upon certification of the county that
said lien, benefit assessment or other charge is unpaid, sell
such property of the delinquent taxpayer at the same time and in
the same manner as other properties at a tax sale.

The certification of the county shall be made to the tax
collector at least ninety (90) days before tax sale and shall be
in such form and shall contain such information as the tax

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