HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 23A - Corporations - Municipal

Section 44

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 23A - Corporations - Municipal
44.

Pursuant to the provisions of § 5 of Article 11E of the
Constitution of Maryland prohibiting any municipal
corporation classified by the General Assembly under the
provisions of § 2 of Article 11E of the Constitution of
Maryland from levying any type of tax, license fee,
franchise tax or fee which was not in effect in [such] THE
municipal corporation on January 1, 1954, unless it [shall
have] HAS received the express authorization of the General
Assembly for [such] THAT purpose, by a general law which in
its terms and its effect applies alike to all similarly
classified municipal corporations, the General Assembly
hereby expressly authorizes all municipal corporations in
this State within the class created by § 10 of this article
for the purpose of financing the design, construction,
establishment, extension, alteration or acquisition of
adequate storm drainage systems, and for the purpose of
financing the design, acquisition establishment,
improvement, extension, operation or alteration of public
parking facilities, or pedestrian malls, and for the purpose
of financing the design acquisition, erection,
construction, improvement and maintenance of street and area
lighting, to create within their respective corporate limits
special taxing districts for [such] THESE purposes and to
levy on all real and personal property located within [said]
THESE special taxing districts an ad valorem tax at a rate
sufficient to provide adequate annual revenues to pay the
principal and interest on any bonds or other obligations of
[such] THE municipality issued for [such] THESE purposes as
the [said] principal and interest [may] become due, AND TO
PAY THE COSTS OF OPERATING AND MAINTAINING THESE FACILITIES.
[All such] THESE taxes shall be levied in the same manner,
upon the same assessments, for the same period or periods,
and as of the same date or dates of finality as are now or
may hereafter be prescribed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.