and

ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 205

(2) The annual license fee:

(i) For on- and off-sale of all alcoholic beverages is [$950] $1,140;

[$600] $720.

(ii) For off-sale for liquor and on- or off-sale for beer and wine is

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 2004.

Approved April 27, 2004.

CHAPTER 205
(House Bill 794)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County - Public Facilities Bonds

FOR the purpose of authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of
Washington County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $75,000,000 in
order to finance the costs of the construction, improvement, or development of
certain public facilities in Washington County, as herein defined, and to effect
such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general
obligation bonds in like par amount; empowering the County to fix and
determine, by resolution, the form, tenor, interest rate or rates or method of
determining the same, terms, conditions, maturities, and all other details
incident to the issuance and sale of the bonds; empowering the County to issue
refunding bonds for the purchase or redemption of bonds in advance of maturity;
empowering and directing the County to levy, impose, and collect, annually, ad
valorem taxes in rate and amount sufficient to provide funds for the payment of
the maturing principal of and interest on the bonds; exempting the bonds and
refunding bonds, and the interest thereon and any income derived therefrom,
from all State, county, municipal, and other taxation in the State of Maryland;
providing that nothing in this Act shall prevent the County from authorizing the
issuance and sale of bonds the interest on which is not excludable from gross
income for federal income tax purposes; providing that such borrowing may be
undertaken by the County in the form of installment purchase obligations
executed and delivered by the County for the purpose of acquiring agricultural
land and, woodland preservation easements, and transferable development
rights; and relating generally to the issuance and sale of such bonds.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That, as used herein, the term "County" means the body politic and
corporate of the State of Maryland known as the County Commissioners of
Washington County, and the term "construction, improvement, or development of
public facilities" means the acquisition, alteration, construction, reconstruction,

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