Pub. L. 83-364, tit. I, sec. 104

Sec. 104. The District shall have a continuing lien for water charges upon any land and the improvements thereon to which water or water service is or has been furnished. Such lien shall have priority over all other liens except liens for District taxes. If any water charges shall remain unpaid after the expiration of two years from the date of rendition of the hill for such charges, or two years from the effective date of this title, whichever is later, the property which has been furnished such water or water service may be sold for such unpaid water charges, together with penalties thereon and costs, at the next ensuing tax sale in the same manner and under the same conditions as property sold for delinquent general taxes, if such water charges, together with penalties thereon and costs, shall not have been paid in full prior to said sale. So much of the proceeds of said sale as represents said unpaid water charges shall be credited to the water fund of the District.