# Tax - Property (GTP)

## Title 6. Taxable Property; Imposition of Tax; Setting Tax Rates

### Subtitle 2. Imposition of Taxes

#### Section 6-201

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, the State may impose State property tax on the assessment of property that is subject to the State property tax.

(b) The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county is not required to pass any law to incorporate the State property tax in the property tax bill or to collect the State property tax.

#### Section 6-202

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county may impose property tax on the assessment of property that is subject to that county's property tax.

#### Section 6-202.1

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county may establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of vacant lots or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice. 

#### Section 6-203

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, the governing body of a municipal corporation may impose municipal corporation property tax on those classes of property that it selects to be subject to municipal corporation property tax.

(b) The municipal corporation property tax is imposed only on assessments made under Title 8 of this article.

#### Section 6-204

Except as otherwise provided by this article, property tax is imposed for the taxable year.

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Md. Code Ann., Tax-Prop. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)