3708

COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

establish procedures dealing with disposition of
surplus goods and scrap; to set forth procedures to be
followed in case of purchase or lease of land by the
County and rescue squads or fire departments supported
in whole or in part by County tax funds; to ratify and
approve certain purchases of land made prior to 1960;
to provide certain exceptions from the provisions of
this Chapter for land that is donated to the County or
its instrumentalities; to establish procedures for bid
protests and appeals therefrom; to authorize the County
to contract with incorporated municipalities to provide
certain types of services to those municipalities at
not less than the cost of such services; to authorize
the County to employ special legal counsel; to provide
for cooperative purchasing arrangements with other
units of government; to provide for reporting of
suspected collusive bidding negotiations; and to
provide for interest in contracts and purchases
generally, and penalties.

Approved April 15, 1977.

Chapter 40

AN ACT to amend Chapter 58, of the Montgomery County Code,
1972, as amended by repealing and reenacting, with
amendments, Section 58—1, title "Definitions", subtitle
"Subdivisions" and by adding a new definition subtitle,
"Weeds and Grass"; and Section 58-3, title "Duty of
Property Owners and Occupants to Cut", for the purpose
of prohibiting the growth of vegetation throughout the
subdivisions and immediately adjacent lands in
Montgomery County, Maryland, which attain a noxious and
dangerous condition so as to constitute a menace to
public health and a fire hazard.

Approved April 22, 1977.

Chapter 41

AN ACT to add a new Section 52-16C, title "Real Property Tax
Recapture", to Chapter 52, title "Taxation", Montgomery
County Code 1972, as amended, to follow immediately
after Section 52-16B thereof for the purpose of
imposing, upon the occasion of the transfer of real
property located in Montgomery County, a tax on the
amount by which the taxable value of such property on
the date of recognition exceeds the assessed valuation
of the property; to specify the rate at which such tax
shall be levied and the manner in which such tax shall
be levied and the manner in which such tax shall be
calculated; to specify assessed valuation; to specify