Ch. 140                                           LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 140

(Senate Bill 521)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County - Water and Sewerage Systems - Annual Assessment

FOR the purpose of expanding the purposes for which the Charles
County Commissioners fix a certain property assessment;
specifying that the purpose is for the acquisition or
construction of the County water and sewerage system
systems, or any parts thereof; clarifying language; and
generally relating to a certain property assessment in
Charles County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 97-1H.(1)

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1988 Edition, as printed)

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

Article 9 - Charles County

97-1.

H. (1) For the purpose OF ACQUIRING OR CONSTRUCTING THE
COUNTY WATER AND SEWERAGE SYSTEM SYSTEMS, OR ANY PARTS THEREOF,
OR FOR THE PURPOSE of paying the principal [of] and interest on
any bonds [issued or to be] THAT ARE issued by the County
Commissioners as PROVIDED in this section [provided], the County
Commissioners [are hereby empowered and directed to] SHALL fix an
annual assessment on all properties, improved or unimproved,
binding upon a street, road, lane, alley or right-of-way in which
a water main or sewer has been built. The annual assessment shall
be made [upon] USING the front-foot basis or an alternate basis,
subject to uniform rules and regulations as may be determined by
the County Commissioners[, and the]. THE first payment shall be
collected during the year in which the construction is completed
on the water or sewerage system or in which the system is
purchased or acquired.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved May 5, 1989.

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