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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="20-801" title_number="20" title_name="Taxes and Development Impact Fees" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Development Excise Taxes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>“Public local law” has the meaning stated in Article XI–F, § 1 of the Maryland Constitution.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, by public local law, the county commissioners of a code county may impose a development excise tax when a subdivision lot is initially sold or transferred to finance any of the capital costs of additional or expanded public school facilities or improvements.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A county that imposes a development impact fee may not impose a development excise tax under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before passing a public local law imposing a development excise tax or altering the amount of the tax, the county commissioners shall hold a public hearing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notice of the hearing shall be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county not less than 3 or more than 14 days before the hearing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The notice shall state:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the subject of the hearing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the time and place that the hearing will occur;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the amount of the tax; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>when during the subdivision process the tax shall be paid.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A development excise tax imposed under this section by a county other than a code county in the Eastern Shore class may not exceed $2,000 per lot.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A development excise tax imposed under this section by a code county in the Eastern Shore class may not exceed $5,000 per lot.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The county commissioners shall deposit development excise taxes in an account known as the “educational facilities improvement fund”.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Money in the educational facilities improvement fund may be used only to pay for capital projects, or for debt incurred for capital projects, for additional or expanded public school facilities or improvements.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
