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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="27-703" title_number="27" title_name="Drainage Districts" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Financing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>When the board of drainage commissioners has estimated the total cost of the drainage project as provided under § 27–701 of this subtitle, the board shall immediately prepare 10 assessment lists to cover the period of the bond issue, providing:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the names of the landowners in the drainage district as determined from the public records;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a brief description of the tracts of land assessed; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amount of the assessment against each tract of land.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The assessment lists shall provide assessments sufficient for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the payment of principal and interest on the bond issue; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the amounts that have to be paid for collection and handling of the assessments.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The assessment list shall provide assessments for each year of the bond issue beginning with the third year and ending with the 12th year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each assessment list shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>specify the time when the assessment is collectible; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be numbered in order.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amount assessed against each tract of land shall be based on the benefit received, as shown by the classification and ratio of assessments made by the board of viewers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The assessment lists shall be signed by the chair and secretary of the board of drainage commissioners.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>After the designated officer has attached an order to each assessment list directing the collection of the assessments, one copy of each assessment list shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>filed with the drainage record; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>delivered to the county tax collector.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>After the assessment list is filed and delivered, the assessments constitute a lien, second only to State and county real property taxes, on the land assessed for the payment of bonds and the interest on the bonds as the payment becomes due.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The assessments shall be due and payable annually on the first Monday in January.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Each assessment shall be collected in the same manner and by the same officer as State and county real property taxes.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the assessments are not paid in full on or before April 30 following the due date, the county tax collector shall sell the delinquent land.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The sale of land shall be between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the courthouse door of the county in which the land is located.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
