ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 247

PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC UTILITY AND 2 CENTS PER HUNDRED DOLLARS ON THE
ASSESSABLE PERSONAL PROPERTY AND OPERATING REAL PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC
UTILITY.

Article 16 - Montgomery County

65-3.

The county council for Montgomery County is hereby authorized, empowered
and directed to levy and cause to be collected from the property owners at the time of
the county tax levy for the year commencing July 1, 1916, and ending June 30, 1917,
and each succeeding year, within the said village known as Drummond, as named and
created by this chapter, [thirty-five cents ($0.35)] FOURTEEN CENTS ($0.14) on each
one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assessable value of the real [and personal
property] PROPERTY OTHER THAN OPERATING REAL PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC
UTILITY AND THIRTY-FIVE CENTS ($0.35) ON EACH ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00)
OF THE ASSESSABLE VALUE OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY AND OPERATING REAL
PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC UTILITY in said village, to be collected as all other county
taxes in said county are collected; to be paid over by said county council to the
treasurer of the committee herein authorized to be created, or his successors selected
by the majority of the members as said committee, upon said treasurer having been
duly selected by a majority of said committee, and giving corporate bond to
Montgomery County, Maryland, satisfactory to and approved by the county manager
and the county attorney in a penal sum to be fixed by them, conditioned upon the
faithful discharge of the duties of said treasurer; the said county council shall also
order and have paid over to said treasurer the proportion of the county road tax to be
levied and collected in the same manner as though said Village of Drummond was an
incorporated town, and the said village shall for that purpose, be considered by said
county council as an incorporated town in said county; all of said funds to be used
directly by or through said committee, exclusively for opening, improving, widening,
maintaining, repairing and lighting the streets, roads, lanes, approaches, alleys,
sidewalks, parking, drainage, sewerage, sanitation and other village improvements,
and for furnishing police and fire protection, clerical and other public service,
including the removal of ashes, garbage and other refuse, and the disposal thereof,
and for the enforcement of the requirements of all conveyances for properties situated
in said village, and for enforcing such building, sanitary and other regulations as said
committee, subject to the approval of the county council may prescribe for said village,
or for any part thereof.

65-4.

If in any year the majority of the said Drummond Citizens' Committee shall
decide the sum hereinbefore authorized to be taxed and levied is in excess of the
amount required for the ensuing year, then and in that event, the said committee
may, on or before April 15 of any year, notify in writing the county council of
Montgomery County to make a reduction in the said levy of [thirty-five cents
($0.35)] FOURTEEN CENTS ($0.14) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessable
[property value] VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY OTHER THAN OPERATING REAL
PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC UTILITY AND THIRTY-FIVE CENTS ($0.35) ON EACH ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) OF ASSESSABLE VALUE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AND

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