928 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 468

tural property, may determine upon such lengths of front-
age for assessment as they deem reasonable and fair. Front
foot assessment charges, as above specified, shall be a first
lien on property against which they are assessed, subject
only to prior State and county charges and upon complain
of the authorities before any Justice of the Peace or the
Circuit Court for Cecil County, in which said land is situated
shall be enforced by a judgment and usual execution thereon.
No front foot benefit charge shall continue as a lien for a
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 Clerk's office in
the county in which said land is situated. Said benefit
charges shall be in default after sixty days from the date
of levy and said levy and any judgment obtained as a result
of the default of payment thereof shall bear interest at the
rate of 1 per cent a month from and after the time of said
levy is in default.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the authorities
shall provide for each and every property abutting upon a
street or right-of-way in which under this Act a water main
and/or sewer is laid, a water and/or sewer connection which
shall be extended, as required, from the water main or sewer
to the property line of the abutting lot, said water or sewer
connection to be constructed by and at the sole expense of
said authorities. When any water main or sewer is declared
by said authorities complete and ready for the delivery of
water or the receiving of sewage, every abutting property
owner, after due notice, shall make connection of all water
or sewerage plumbing with said main or sewer within such
reasonable time as may be prescribed by said authorities.
Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be a
misdemeanor, punishable under Section 16.

SEC, 7. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of
providing funds for maintaining, repairing and operating the
water system or the sewerage system constructed under the
provisions of this Act, including overhead expense and proper
depreciation allowance, the authorities shall have full power
and authority to make such service rates as they may deem
necessary, chargeable against all properties served by a water
supply or a sewerage system under their ownership. Serv-
ice rates shall be subject to change from time to time as said
authorities deem necessary. Said rates shall be payable at
such times, and shall be subject to such penalties for non-
payment, as said authorities may determine, and they shall be
collectible against the owner of the property served, in the
same manner as other debts are collectible at law.