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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 28-12 Appeal of decision on refund or revision.">
  <section prefix="§" num="28-12" heading="Appeal of decision on refund or revision.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Administrative appeal.">
      <para num="(1)">Within 15 days of notice of action by the Director on the taxpayer’s application for revision or refund of an assessment, the taxpayer may request a formal hearing before the Director.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The Director shall grant a hearing and shall give the taxpayer reasonable notice of the time, date, and place of the hearing.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Conduct of hearing.">The Director shall have the power:<para num="(1)">to administer oaths; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">to prescribe all necessary and reasonable rules for the conduct of a hearing.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Director’s decision.">
      <para num="(1)">After a hearing, the Director:<para num="(i)">shall make a determination concerning any revision of the assessment, or grant or refuse a refund; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">shall provide notice to the taxpayer of this determination.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">In addition, the Director may levy a deficiency assessment against the taxpayer for any additional taxes found to be due.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Judicial review.">
      <para num="(1)">A taxpayer dissatisfied with the Director’s final determination may seek judicial review of that decision by petition to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in accordance with the Maryland Rules of Procedure.</para>
      <para num="(2)">A party to the judicial review may appeal the court’s final judgment to the Court of Special Appeals in accordance with the Maryland Rules of Procedure.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 28, §86</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 86-687</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
