The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-06-21

able may readvertise the work or any part
of it, or may do any part or all OF the
work by day labor; provided that at any
time the Commission may. at its dis
erection, expend by day labor for con-
struction work an amount not exceed
ing $1,000 without advertising or
receiving bids. All such contracts may
be protected by such bonds, penalties
and conditions as the Commission snail
require, all of which shall be enforceable
in any court having Jurisdiction.
Sec, 8. Aud be it further enacted,
That said Commission, for the purpose
of assessing benefits for the cohstruc-
ton of water supply and sewerage
systems, shall divide all properties
binding upon street, lane, alley or
right of way, in which a water pipe or
sanitary sewerage is to be laid, into four
classes, namely agricultural, small acre
age, industrial or business, and subdl-
vision property. Immediately upon the
commencement of o water supply or
sewerage project in any district, the
Commission is empowered and directed
to fit and levy benefit charge upon all
property in that district abuting upon
said water main or sewer, in accordance
with the lassification, and shall IN
writing notify all owners of said prop
critics into which class their respective
properties fall and the charge determln-
ed upon, naming also in said notice
time and place when and at which said
owners will be heard. Such notice
may be mailed to the last known address
of the owner, or served in person upon
any adult occupying the premises. or IN
the case of vacant or unimproved
property, posted upon the premises,
The classification of and benefit assessed
against any property as made by the
Commission shall be final, subject only
to revision at said hearing. The Com.
mission may change the classification OF
properties, from time to time, as said
properties change in the uses to which
they are put. Said benefits shall be
levied for both water supply and sewer
age construction and shall be based for
each class of property upon the number
of front feet abutting upon the street,
lane, alley or right of way in which the
water pipe or sewer is placed; provided,
however, that no lot in subdivision
property shall be assessed on more than
one side, that corner lots in this class shall
be assessed on that frontage towards
which the building should naturally
face, and that all lots in this class shall!
be assessed for their full frontage even
though a water main or sewer may not
extend along the full length of any
boundary; and provided further, that
no land so classed as agricultural by
said Commission, when in actual use
for farming or trucking purposes, shall
be assessed a front foot benefit when
such agricultural land has constructed
through it or front of it sewer or
water main, until such time as water
or sewer connection is made, and when
so made and for every connection such
land shall bee ome liable to a front foot
benefit assessment for such reasonable
frontage, not exceeding three hundred
feet front, as may be determined by said
Commits sion, and shall be immediately
assessed at the rate of assessment
determined upon by the said Commlss-
ion for agricul.ura land. Front-foot
benefit charges for water supply and
sewerage construction shall be uniform
for each class Of property throughout
the Sanitary District, and no benefit
charge once levied, shall be increased.
The amount of the charge, per front
foot for each class of property for both
water mains and sewers shall be deter
mined from time to time by the Com
Said benefit charges shall be paid
annually, beginning in the year such
construction is begun, by all properties
located as above specified, for period
of years CO extensive with the period of
maturity of the bonds out of the pro-
ceeds of which such construction
was done: provided, however, that any
property owner may, at his option,
extinguish said benefit charge by pay
ment, in cash, of an amount which if
put at interest at 81 per cent. compound
ed annually, would yield an annuity
equal to the annual assessment for the
period for which said assessment is
| levied. The Commission shall at any
| time permit connection with water
main or a sewer by property owner
whose property does not abut on said
| water main or sewer, and who has not
previously thereto paid benefit for the
| construction of said water main or
sewer, provided said Commission shall
| first determine the classification of said
| property and front-foot charge to be
paid BY said property owner as though
| his property abutted on said water main
| or sewer; and in the event of such
connection being made said property
| owner and said property, as to all
charges, rates and benefits, shall in
every respect stand in the same position
as if the said property abutted upon q
water main or sewer. The annual
benefit charges above specified shall be
a first lien upon the property against
which they are assessed, subject only to
prior State, County and municipal
charges, and shall Re enforced by a
| Judgment upon complaint of the Com.
mission before any justice of the peace
or the Circuit Court for the County in
| which said land is situated, and usual
| execution thereon. No such annual
| benefit charge shall continue as lien
| for q period longer than two years from
| the date upon which the same became
in default, unless it is reduced to a
judgment and duly recorded among the
records Of the clerks Office in the County
| in which said land is situated. Said
benefit charge shall be payable at the
| Office of the Commission Immediately
| upon being levied and shall be in default
| after sixty days from that date; and
said levy. and any judgment obtained
as result of the default of payment
thereof, shall bear interest at the rate
of per cent a month from and after
the time said levy is in default.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,
That said commission shall provide for
each and every property abutting upon
Il street or right of way in which, under
this Act, a water main or sanitary
sewer is laid, a water service pipe or
| sewer connection which shall be extend
| ed, as required, from the water main or
sewer to the property line Of the Adult
| ing lot, said service pipe or connection
to be constructed by, and at the sole
expense of, said Commission. When
any water main or sewer is declared by
said Commission complete and ready
for the delivery of water or the reception
of sewerage, every abutting property
over, after due notice, shall make
connection of all spigots or hydrants,
toilets and waste drains with said water
main or sewer within time prescribed
by said Commission. Where the afore-
said fixtures do not exist, or are of a
nature which, in the judgment of the
Commission. is improper or inadequate,
satisfactory equipment shall be installed
All cesspoois. sink drains and privies