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certain purposes; requiring Baltimore City to use certain highway user revenues for
certain purposes; requiring the Board of County Commissioners of Washington
County to include a certain appropriation in the county budget for a certain fiscal
year; requiring a certain convention and visitors bureau Hagerstown/Washington
County Convention and Visitors Bureau to expend a certain amount for certain
expenses for a certain fiscal year; requiring the Bureau to submit a certain report on
or before a certain date; and generally relating to the use by certain local subdivisions
of a part of the hotel tax revenue collected in Washington County certain revenues to
promote Civil War tourism.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 24 - Political Subdivisions - Miscellaneous Provisions

Section 9-304 and 9-318(b)(4) and (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Transportation

Section 8-408(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
The Charter of Baltimore City, 1964 Revision
Article II - General Powers
Section (40)(a)
(1993 Replacement Volume and September 1995 Supplement, as amended)

BY adding to

The Charter of Baltimore City, 1964 Revision

Article II - General Powers

Section (40)(e)

(1993 Replacement Volume and September 1995 Supplement, as amended)

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

Article 24 - Political Subdivisions - Miscellaneous Provisions

9-304.

(a)     Subject to the limitations in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the hotel
rental tax rate is the rate that the authorized county sets by resolution.

(b)     An authorized county may not set a hotel rental tax rate that exceeds:

(1)     3% in a code county;

(2)     5% in Calvert County;

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