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If, after the hearing provided for in this article, the council shall determine for any of the reasons set forth in section 45-27 that a special sewer assessment district is required for the public interest, health, safety or welfare, it shall by law designate the area of such assessment district and direct that the programmed extension be undertaken pursuant to agreements entered into with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for the construction of such facilities under the authority contained in section 1-206 of article 29 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended. The council at or about the time of enactment of such law shall by resolution describe generally the work to be done, determine the benefit to all properties affected thereby and estimate the cost to be borne by benefitted properties. (1971 L.M.C., ch. 1, § 1.)
Upon completion of the construction, the council shall by resolution assess the benefit in terms of resulting costs to the county thereof, including actual cost of publication of notices, conduct of hearings, advertising for bids, engineering and all costs of financing incurred prior to the adoption of the resolution, to all land encompassed within the assessment district and shall levy such assessment thereon for the recovery of the benefit or portion thereof on either an ad valorem basis or on a per-acre basis on all of the land. Notice of such assessment shall be given by placing a true copy of the resolution in the United States mail addressed to the owner of the property as shall appear on the real property assessment records of the county giving opportunity for objections thereto within thirty (30) days of such deposit in the mail. Such assessment shall be final; provided, that any person aggrieved by such assessment may appeal the same to the circuit court for the county within thirty (30) days after the expiration of the time for objection. The proceeds of the assessment may be expended by the county council for or in aid of the purposes of this article or may be paid over to the commission for these purposes. In the event the assessments levied together with all capital contributions or other funds received by either the county or the commission for such extension exceed the original capital costs of the completed project, such excess funds shall be applied as credits toward payment of any unpaid assessments or as refunds in whole or in part of assessments fully paid, as applicable. (1971 L.M.C., ch. 1, § 1.)
Nothing herein is intended to be a substitute for any other method or system for financing of projects, particularly those in section 5-101 of article 29 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, it being intended to provide for a supplementary source of funds where the scheduled construction has been determined to be needed by the county council for the public purposes of this article. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the county council to construct or maintain sewer systems. Assessments levied in an assessment district under this chapter shall be used only for financing sewer systems within that district or related to the district or the system therein. (1971 L.M.C., ch. 1, § 1.)
The county council finds that the health, safety and welfare of the residents and taxpayers of the county are beneficially served through participation by the county in an areawide wastewater treatment management planning agency to be established under the provisions of section 208 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500); further, the county council finds that authority exists to provide for county participation in this program through the enactment of this amendment. (1975 L.M.C., ch. 25, § 1.)
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