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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-656" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Sanitary Commissions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To pay the principal and interest on bonds issued under this subtitle, a sanitary commission may set reasonable benefit assessments and reasonable connection charges.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In Allegany County, a sanitary commission may also set reasonable benefit assessments to pay the cost of capital improvements to a water or sewerage system.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Sanitary Commission of Worcester County may also set reasonable benefit assessments and reasonable connection charges to pay other costs on bonds issued under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In Dorchester County, a sanitary commission may also set reasonable benefit assessments to pay the cost of capital improvements and repairs to a water or sewerage system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except for Worcester County, a connection charge made under this section shall be equal at least to the cost of making the connection between a water system or sewerage system and the property served by that system.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In Worcester County, a connection charge shall be equal at least to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The actual cost of making the connection between a water system or sewerage system and the property served by the system; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The average cost of making a connection based on:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The diameter and the length of the connector; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The diameter of the connector and the width of the way in which the water pipe or sewer pipe is laid.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In the case of connectors constructed under § 9-661 of this subtitle during construction of the water line or sewer line, the Sanitary Commission of Worcester County shall determine a connection charge under paragraph (2)(ii) of this subsection that is the same on each side of the way in which the line is laid.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Sanitary Commission may set benefit assessments on all property, improved or unimproved, that abuts a way in which a water main or sewer has been built.</text>
  </level>
</section>
