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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="25-803" title_number="25" title_name="Public Watershed Associations" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Financing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The board of directors shall determine the amount to be raised to implement an approved watershed project.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The board of directors shall prepare an assessment list that shows the amount due from each landowner subject to the special assessment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The special assessments imposed on each tract of land shall be proportional to the total assessments.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The assessment list required under subsection (b) of this section shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>signed by the board of directors; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>sent to the designated officer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The designated officer shall certify the conformance of the assessment list with this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After receiving the certification of the assessment list, the county commissioners, county council, or Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City shall certify the assessment list to the county tax collector.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The county tax collector shall include the special assessments imposed under this section in the next bills for county taxes.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The special assessments are:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>due and collectible at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>subject to the same interest and penalties for late payment and nonpayment as county taxes.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>If the special assessments collected under this section are insufficient to complete the watershed project, a supplemental special assessment shall be imposed in the same manner.</text>
  </level>
</section>
