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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="4-313" title_number="4" title_name="In General" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Amendment or Repeal of Charter">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the repeal of an entire municipal charter, and the termination of the municipality, may be accomplished by a charter amendment adopted under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The following need not contain the text of the municipal charter that is proposed for repeal and may simply state that the charter is proposed for repeal:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the resolution of the legislative body of the municipality, or the petition of the qualified voters, proposing the repeal of the municipal charter;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the posting and publication of the proposed repeal of the municipal charter; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the submission of the resolution proposing the repeal of the municipal charter and the favorable vote on the resolution to the Department of Legislative Services as provided in § 4–109 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>After a municipal charter is repealed, the charter may not be included in any later edition or codification of the public local laws of the county or State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The resolution or petition to initiate the repeal of a municipal charter may provide for the disposition of the assets of the municipality and the liquidation of any debt of the municipality.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>If no disposition is made in accordance with subsection (d) of this section, the county commissioners or county council of the county in which the municipality is located shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>succeed to full ownership, title, and control of the assets of the municipality after the municipal charter is repealed; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pay the debts and obligations of the municipality in accordance with the terms of the debts and obligations.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>While a municipal charter remains in effect, the county commissioners or county council of the county in which the municipality is located may provide, by written agreement with the municipality, when the repeal of the charter takes effect, for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the transfer of some or all of the assets of the municipality; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the assumption of some or all of the debts and obligations of the municipality.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To provide the revenue necessary to pay the debts and obligations of a municipality as of the time the municipal charter is repealed, the county commissioners or county council of the county in which the municipality is located shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish a special tax area with the same boundaries as the former municipality; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>impose a special tax or special assessment in the special tax area and collect the special tax or special assessment in the same manner as other county property taxes are collected.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The proceeds of the tax or assessment shall be applied only to the debt and obligation of the former municipality.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The tax or assessment shall be discontinued when all debts and obligations of the former municipality have been paid.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
