Front foot benefit assessments, drainage assessments, water and sewer system upkeep charges, connection charges, and other charges which the board is empowered to make shall be liens upon the property served or benefitted and, in addition to being enforced by actions at law, may be enforced by a bill in equity against the property so served or benefitted. In addition to being enforced by actions at law and a bill in equity, the county tax collector, if directed by the board, shall sell the property of the delinquent property owner in the same manner as other properties are sold at a tax sale. The liens shall be subject only to liens for state and county taxes. Such charges shall be due when made and after thirty (30) days from that date may bear interest at the rate of up to one percent per month as established by a resolution of the board. Neither the due dates nor the interval between such dates need be uniform throughout Frederick County. If a property owner fails to connect to a sewer or a water system which is declared by the board to be complete and ready for the delivery of water or the reception of sewage under § 2-13-20 of this code, the property owner shall pay the minimum charge established for that system from the time that the property owner is given notice and fails to make connections with the water main or sewer line.
(Code 1959, § 10A-29; 1968, Chapter 609, § 1; 1979, Chapter 723, § 1; 1983, Chapter 38, § 1)
Editor’s note:
Ch. 723 of the 1979 Acts designated the above section as section 10A-29 of the 1959 county code; however, such section constitutes an amendment and renumbering of former section 10A-22 of the 1959 Code.