MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                              2281

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 389

(Senate Bill 1082)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County — Tax Payment Discounts
and Penalties

FOR the purpose of allowing the Charles County
Commissioners discretion in setting the discount
[[note]] rate for early payment of county taxes; and
discretion in setting the penalty rate for late
payment of county taxes; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 88(e)

Article 9 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1969 Edition and 1972 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 88(e) of the Public Local Laws of
Charles County being Article 9 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1969 Edition and 1972 Supplement)
be and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 9

88.

(e) The [said] treasurer shall immediately after
the making of the levy, in each year after April 11,
1910, publish for two successive weeks in not more than
three newspapers a short notice informing the public
generally, that if taxes are paid on or before the first
day of September next succeeding the date of [such] THE
notice there will be allowed a deduction [of three per
centum] from the [amount of said] taxes OF AN AMOUNT TO
BE DETERMINED BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOT TO EXCEED
THREE PERCENT OF THE TAXES; and that on all taxes not
paid on or before the 1st day of September in each year,
interest at [the] A rate [of one per centum (1%)] TO BE
DETERMINED BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOT TO EXCEED ONE
PERCENT per month will be charged. The [said] treasurer