PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 476

EQUIVALENT OF SIX DWELLING UNITS, and shall be assessed immediately at the rate of
assessment determined upon by the Commission for agricultural land.

(3) 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 ASSESSMENT charge.

(4) 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 ASSESSMENT CHARGE would be
based. The Commission may provide for a hiatus in the imposition and the collection of a
benefit ASSESSMENT 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
ASSESSMENT 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 ASSESSMENT charge shall
commence and be collected as hereinafter provided with respect to land or property for
which benefit ASSESSMENT charges had been exempted or suspended initially and the
exemption or suspension is no longer applicable.

(5) 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
Mental Hygiene, or if following construction of the Commission line the property is
connected to the other specified public system pursuant to Commission authorization, the
property is exempt from the imposition and collection of a sanitary district benefit
assessment CHARGE until it is served by or connected to the Commission's water or
sanitary sewerage system, as the case may be. When the exemption or suspension
condition is no longer applicable pursuant to those provisions which established the
exemption or suspension, any land or property exempted from or with respect to which
there is a suspension of benefit ASSESSMENT charges shall be classified by benefit charge
assessment purposes in its then current class and become liable to a benefit assessment
charge at a rate and for a period of time the same as properties first classified or assessed
in that year, but not less than the rate and number of years which would have been
applied at the time of exemption or suspension.

(6) The receipts from benefit charge assessments for properties with respect
to which the benefit ASSESSMENT charge was exempted or suspended for a period of
years shall be used by the Commission to amortize any bonds issued for the purpose of
constructing or acquiring the water and sewer lines for which benefit ASSESSMENT
charges are levied under the provisions of this chapter or for constructing or acquiring
other water and sanitary sewer lines for which benefit ASSESSMENT charges are levied.

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