(iii) an indication that, before the budget is enacted, appropriate
officials or representatives of the municipal corporation are entitled to appear before
the county governing body to discuss or contest the level of the proposed tax setoff.

(i) Representatives of each municipal corporation in the county requesting a
tax setoff shall be afforded an opportunity to testify before the county governing body
during normally scheduled hearings on the county's proposed budget.

(j) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (d), (f), and (g) of this
section: 

(1) a county and one or more municipal corporations may enter into an
agreement setting different terms or timing for negotiations, calculations, or approval
of a tax setoff; and

(2) a county may grant a tax setoff to a municipal corporation that does
not make a request in the fashion described in this section. 

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1999. 

Approved May 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 505

(House Bill 1215)

AN ACT concerning

Property Tax-Exemption Queen Anne's County - Property Tax Credit -

Wildfowl Trust of North America, Inc.

FOR the purpose of providing for an exemption from a property tax credit in Queen
Anne's County for certain property owned by the Wildfowl Trust of North
America, Inc.; and providing for the application of this Act.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
BY adding to
Article - Tax - Property
Section 7-217 9-319(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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