Title
Collection of Taxes - For the purpose of removing the 3-year limit for the City to collect property taxes; authorizing collection of taxes in the manner prescribed by the Annotated Code of Maryland; and removing the 3-year bar to recovery for taxes not timely collected.
Body
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Charter Amendment 1-17
Introduced by: Mayor Pantelides
Referred to
Rules and City Government
A CHARTER AMENDMENT concerning
Collection of Taxes
FOR the purpose of removing the 3-year limit for the City to collect property taxes; authorizing collection of taxes in the manner prescribed by the Annotated Code of Maryland; and removing the 3-year bar to recovery for taxes not timely collected.
BY amending the following portions of the City Charter:
Article VII, Section 5.
SECTION I: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Charter of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
Article VII FINANCES
Sec. 5. - Collection of taxes.
All property taxes shall be collected by the finance director within three (3) years after the levy. If the taxes are not collected within three (3) years, the parties from whom such taxes may be demanded may plead this section in bar of any recoveryIN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED BY THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND.
SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the date of adoption of this Resolution is March 27, 2017, and the amendments of the Charter of the City of Annapolis, hereby enacted shall become effective on May 16, 2017, unless a proper petition for referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law within 40 days of adoption, provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be continuously posted on the bulletin board in the City Hall until May 8, 2017, and provided further that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in "The Capital," a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Annapolis, or in any other newspaper of such general circulation, once in each of the weeks on, April 10, 2017, April 17, 2017, April 24, 2017, and May 1, 2017.
SECTION III: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Mayor is hereby specifically commanded to carry out the provisions of Section II hereof, and, as evidence of such compliance, the Mayor shall cause to be maintained appropriate certificates of publication of the newspaper or newspapers in which the title of the Resolution shall have been published and if a favorable referendum is held on the Charter change, shall declare the Charter change hereby enacted to be effective on May 16, 2017, by affixing his signature hereto in the space provided on the effective date of change.
SECTION IV: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that as soon as the Charter Amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either as provided herein or following a referendum, the Mayor shall send to the Maryland Department of Legislative Services a copy of this Resolution showing the number of Aldermen and Alderwomen voting for and against it and a report on the votes cast for or against the amendment hereby enacted at any referendum thereon and the date of such referendum.
The above Charter Amendment was enacted by the foregoing Resolution which was passed at a Meeting of the Annapolis City Council on March 27, 2017; 9 voting in the affirmative, 0 voting in the negative, 0 abstaining and 0 absent and the said Resolution becomes effective in accordance with law on the 16th day of May, 2017.
EXPLANATION
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