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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="21-409" title_number="21" title_name="Special Taxing Districts" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Municipal Special Taxing Districts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For any purpose stated in § 21–410(a)(1) of this subtitle, a municipality may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>establish a special taxing district;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>impose ad valorem or special taxes; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>issue bonds.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>For any purpose stated in § 21–410(a)(2) of this subtitle, a municipality may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish special taxing districts;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>impose ad valorem or special taxes; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>pledge funds under an agreement to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>secure payment on MEDCO obligations;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>pay the costs of infrastructure improvements located in or supporting a transit–oriented development or a State hospital redevelopment; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>pay the costs of operating and maintaining infrastructure improvements located in or supporting a transit–oriented development or a State hospital redevelopment.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An agreement pledging funds as described in paragraph (1)(iii) of this subsection shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>be authorized by an ordinance or resolution of the municipality;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be in writing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>be executed on behalf of the municipality making the pledge, the Maryland Economic Development Corporation, and any other person or entity that the governing body of the municipality determines; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>benefit, and be enforceable on behalf of, the holders of any MEDCO obligation secured by the agreement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipality may establish a special taxing district, issue bonds, or impose an ad valorem or special tax under this part only if a request to the municipality is made by both:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the owners of at least two–thirds of the assessed valuation of the real property located in the special taxing district; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at least two–thirds of the owners of the real property located in the special taxing district.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For purposes of paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>multiple owners of a single parcel are treated as a single owner; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a single owner of multiple parcels is treated as one owner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
