Ch. 472

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 472
(House Bill 691)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County - Licensing of Dogs and Kennels

FOR the purpose of exempting Washington County from certain provisions of law
relating to licensing of dogs and kennels; repealing certain provisions of law relating
to dog licenses that apply to Washington County; and generally relating to the
licensing of dogs and kennels in Washington County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 24 - Political Subdivisions - Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 11-501(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing

Article 24 - Political Subdivisions - Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 11-501(i)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 25 - County Commissioners
Section 236A

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

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

11-501.

(a) Except in Carroll County, Montgomery County [and], Howard County, AND
WASHINGTON COUNTY, on or before the first day of July of each year, the owner of any
dog, six months old or over, shall apply either orally or in writing, to the county treasurer
or to the tax collecting officer in said county for a license for each such dog owned or kept
by him, and such application shall be accompanied by a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each
male dog or each spayed female dog, and a fee of two dollars ($2.00) for each unspayed
female dog, and provided that kennel license shall be issued for ten dollars ($10.00) to
persons owning or keeping not in excess of twenty-five dogs and that a kennel license fee
of twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be issued to persons keeping more than twenty-five dogs.
The said license or fee shall be the only license or tax required for the ownership or
keeping of said dog or dogs. Such license shall be issued on a form prepared and supplied

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