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Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

Section 76(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1975 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 (1975
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

76.

(a) (1) At any time after the expiration of
[thirty] 30 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 the
notice, be sold at public auction.[; provided that in]

(2)         IN Prince George's County the notice
shall be published in three newspapers at a price of
[$5.00] $5 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
newspapers in which the advertisement [shall] first
[appear] APPEARS and the treasurer of the county shall
deliver the copy of the advertisement to the publishers
of the newspapers not later that ten o'clock a.m. on the
Friday of the week preceding first publication of the tax
sale advertisement.

(3)          IN FREDERICK COUNTY THE NOTICE SHALL BE
PUBLISHED THREE TIMES, ONCE A WEEK FOR THREE SUCCESSIVE
WEEKS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 486
(House Bill 1308)

AN ACT concerning