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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 118

corporations perform in lieu of similar county governmental
services and programs and the extent that the similar services
and programs are funded through property tax revenues. The
county property tax rate set for one municipal corporation does
not have to be uniform among all municipal corporations within
the county, and the rate set for one tax year need not be the
same in any succeeding year.

(2)   In lieu of a lesser rate of county property tax
as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the county may
make a payment to the municipal corporations to assist the
municipal corporations in funding governmental services or
programs which the municipal corporations perform in lieu of
similar county services or programs.

(3)  The provisions of this subsection apply only in:

(i) Calvert County;
(ii) Caroline County;
(iii) Carroll County;
(iv) Cecil County;
(v) Charles County;
(vi) Dorchester County;
(vii) Frederick County;
[(viii) Harford County;]
[ix)] (VIII) Kent County;
[(x)] (IX) Queen Anne's County;
[(xi)] (X) Somerset County;
[(xii)] (XI) St. Mary's County;
[(xiii)] (XII) Talbot County;
[(xiv)] (XIII) Washington County;
[(xv)] (XIV) Wicomico County; and
[(xvi)] (XV) Worcester County.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 8, 1984.