ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 48

(8) An inmate who knowingly violates a term or a condition of [the home
detention] ANY program ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS SECTION is subject to the
penalties provided under § 11-726 of this subtitle and to other disciplinary action
provided by law.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2003.

Approved April 8, 2003.

CHAPTER 48
(House Bill 701)

AN ACT concerning

Talbot County - Building Excise Tax

FOR the purpose of authorizing the County Council of Talbot County to fix and
impose, by ordinance, a building excise tax on all types of building construction;
requiring the County Council to specify in the ordinance the types of building
construction subject to the tax, the criteria and formulas used to assess the tax,
and the tax rates; authorizing the County Council to impose different rates of
the building excise tax on different types of building construction subject to the
tax; requiring that the tax rates relate to the development or growth-related
infrastructure needs in the County; requiring that the tax rates not exceed a
certain amount; requiring the revenues from the building excise tax be
deposited in a special fund; providing that the revenues from the building excise
tax may only be used for certain capital costs of certain public works,
improvements and facilities; requiring authorizing the imposition of the
building excise tax bo imposed throughout Talbot County, including within
municipal corporations; requiring the a municipal corporations corporation to
assist the County in the collection of the building excise tax if the tax is imposed
within the municipal corporations corporation; requiring the County to adopt a
certain revenue sharing mechanism to apportion an appropriate share of
revenues from the building excise tax to the municipal corporations; and
generally relating to authorizing the County Council of Talbot County to impose
a building excise tax.

BY adding to

Article 24 - Political Subdivisions

Section 9-1001 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 10. Building Excise Tax"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2001 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

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

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