Ch. 43

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 43

(Senate Bill 673)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County - Impact Fees

FOR the purpose of altering the circumstances under which and the
basis on which certain impact fees may be imposed in Charles
County; limiting the purposes for which certain impact fees
shall be used in Charles County; altering the maximum amount
per unit of impact fees that may be imposed in Charles
County; providing that in Charles County the impact fee for
an improvement may not be required to be paid before the
issuance of the Building Permit for the improvement or, at
the discretion of the County Commissioners, before the
issuance of the Occupancy Permit for the residential
dwelling unit; making this Act an emergency measure; and
generally relating to impact fees in Charles County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

Section 5.08

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1988 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

                     Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

5.08.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, if
an application or permit or series of applications or permits is
granted by WITHIN Charles County to an owner or owners of land
which allows the applicant to proceed with the development of
that land for purposes of constructing residential dwelling
units, OTHER THAN AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR FAMILIES OF LIMITED
INCOME AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE 83B, § 2-302 OF THE CODE whether
single or multiple, detached or attached, in a manner that the
county or the State will have to provide additional school
sites[,] or [other] SCHOOL facilities for the use and benefit of
new residents who will populate the developed land, the owner or
owners of the land, in accordance with regulations or procedures
which may be promulgated by the County Commissioners, shall
compensate the county for the burden the development will impose
in terms of the additional public SCHOOL facilities which will
have to be provided in an amount equal to the cost attributable
to the proposed development of the land involved.

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