Loading...
Whenever by law any extension or reduction of the area within the Montgomery County Suburban District takes effect, all regulations and ordinances of general application throughout the district, adopted under section 68-2, as now or hereafter amended, and then in force, shall thereafter be applicable within the area of the Montgomery County Suburban District as so extended or reduced. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 47-3.)
The council is authorized to levy annually against all the assessable property within the Montgomery County Suburban District the sum of not exceeding twelve cents ($0.12) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessed value of real property other than operating real property of a public utility and thirty cents ($0.30) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessed value of personal property and operating real property of a public utility. The levies herein authorized shall be upon all property, both real and personal, assessed for county tax purposes within the district and shall be levied and collected as other county taxes are now or may hereafter be, by law, levied and collected, and have the same priority rights, bear the same interest and penalties and in every respect be treated the same as other county taxes. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 47-4; 1927, ch. 692, § 6; 1931, ch. 459, § 8; 2003, ch. 247.)
The council is hereby authorized to expend any part of the suburban district tax funds or any other revenue accruing to the suburban district in the county for the grading, construction, maintenance or drainage of roads, streets or highways in the suburban district. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 47-5; 1941, ch. 756.)
Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this chapter, unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable before the circuit court of the county or a trial magistrate of the county, and the offender shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine nor exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) or thirty (30) days in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of the court. Where such an act or omission is of a continuing nature or is persisted in violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any ordinance, rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, a conviction for one (1) offense shall not be a bar to a conviction for a continuation of such offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 47-6; 1927, ch. 692, § 12; 1931, ch. 459, § 13.)
The county council for Montgomery County be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to abolish, by resolution of the county council, the special tax area or district in Montgomery County known as "the Montgomery County Suburban District," as created by chapter 692 of the Acts of 1927, and as may have been amended from time to time thereafter, and the county council be and it is further authorized and empowered to repeal or amend, by resolution thereof, such of the provisions of the Montgomery County Code, being also article 16 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, as may pertain to the district and the regulation, administration, management or government thereof or in any manner relate thereto. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 47-7; 1957, ch. 625, § 1.)