2912

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 623

CHAPTER 623
(Senate Bill 982)

AN ACT concerning

Prince George's County — Notice by Advertising;
Expense a Lien on Property

FOR the purpose of increasing the price paid per item to
newspapers for publishing notices of public auction;
and clarifying the language.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

Section 76(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 76(a) of Article 81 - Revenue and
Taxes, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

76.

(a) At any time after the expiration of thirty
days from the mailing of the statement and notice, the
collector shall cause to be published, four times, once a
week for four successive weeks in one or more newspapers
having a general circulation in the county in which the
property is located, a notice that the property will, on
a day and at the place named in [such] THE notice, be
sold at public auction; provided that in Prince George's
County [such] THE notice shall be published in three
newspapers at a price of [two dollars and fifty cents
($2.50)] $5.00 per item for each newspaper, which sum of
money shall be charged against the property offered for
sale as an item of cost after six o'clock P. M. on the
Friday next preceding the date of the issue of the [said]
THE newspapers in which [said] THE advertisement shall
first appear and the treasurer of [said] THE county shall