Ch. 247

2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

OPERATING REAL PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC UTILITY, as hereinbefore provided for, the
amount of said reduction be determined by the said committee and specified in the
said notification to the county council; and upon receipt of such notification, the board
of county council of Montgomery County is authorized, empowered and directed to
make a levy less than the said FOURTEEN CENTS ($0.14) OR thirty-five cents ($0.35)
in the amount determined and specified by the said committee.

65-6.

(d) For the purpose of making the improvements provided for in this section,
the said Drummond Citizens' Committee is hereby authorized and empowered to
borrow money and otherwise contract indebtedness and obligate said Village of
Drummond in an amount not exceeding at any time THE SUM OF [ten (10)] FOUR (4)
per centum of the assessed valuation of the real property OTHER THAN OPERATING
REAL PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC UTILITY AND TEN (10) PER CENTUM OF THE ASSESSED
VALUATION OF THE OPERATING REAL PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC UTILITY within said
village, and for this purpose said Village of Drummond shall be and hereby is
constituted a corporation, and the said Drummond Citizens' Committee is empowered
to act for said corporation; provided, that should there be default on bonds or other
indebtedness incurred by the said citizens' committee of the said Village of
Drummond for the said village, it shall be the duty of the county council of
Montgomery County to levy or have levied special general taxes against the real
property of said Village of Drummond to the extent only that such default bonds or
incurred indebtedness shall be liquidated.

66-2.

The county council for Montgomery County shall levy and cause to be collected
from the property owners at the time of the county tax levy, for the year commencing
July 1, 1914, and ending June 30, 1915, and each succeeding year, within the Village
of Friendship Heights, as named and created by this chapter, the rate, not less than
[ten cents ($0.10)] FOUR CENTS ($0.04) nor more than [fifty cents ($0.50)] TWENTY
CENTS ($0.20) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assessable value of the
[real and personal property] REAL PROPERTY OTHER THAN OPERATING REAL
PROPERTY OF A PUBLIC UTILITY AND NOT LESS THAN TEN CENTS ($0.10) NOR MORE
THAN FIFTY CENTS ($0.50) ON EACH ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) OF THE
ASSESSABLE VALUE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AND OPERATING REAL PROPERTY OF A
PUBLIC UTILITY in the villages, which is specified to it on or before June 1 by the
village council after public hearing held thereon by the village council, to be collected
as all other county taxes in the county are collected; to be paid over by the county
council to the treasurer of the village council herein authorized to be created, or his
successors, selected by the majority of the members of the village council, upon the
treasurer having been duly selected by a majority of the members of the village
council, and giving corporate bond to Montgomery County, Maryland, satisfactory to
and approved by the chief administrative officer and the county attorney in a penal
sum to be fixed by them, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of the
treasurer, and the county council shall also order and have paid over to the treasurer
the proportion of the county road tax to be levied and collected in the same manner as
though the Village of Friendship Heights was an incorporated town, and the village
shall, for the purpose, be considered by the county council as an incorporated town of

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