Ch. 419                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

penalty rate for overdue tax on commercial property and a
separate interest rate and separate tax penalty rate for
overdue tax on noncommercial property.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Tax - Property
Section 14-603 and 14-702
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1986 Volume and 1987 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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14-603.

(a)  Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section
and for estimated personal property tax in § 14-604 of this
subtitle, the rate of interest for full year county or municipal
corporation property tax or taxing district property tax is
two-thirds of 1% for each month or fraction of a month that the
county or municipal corporation property tax or taxing district
property tax is overdue.

(b)  For the following counties and municipal corporations
the rate of interest for each month or fraction of a month that
county or municipal corporation property tax or taxing district
property tax is overdue is:

(1)  1% for Garrett County;

(2)  1% for the City of Salisbury;

(3)   [1% for Calvert County;

(4)] 1% for Washington County; and

[(5)] (4) the   rate set by law by:

(i) the   governing body of:

1.  Allegany County;

2.  the City of Annapolis;

3.  Anne Arundel County;

4.  Baltimore County;

5.  Berlin, not exceeding 1.5%;

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