[Added 5-3-1991 by Bill No. 3-91,[1] effective 7-1-1991 (Ch. 42, Art. VIII, of the 1984 Code)]
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Editor's Note: This bill also provided that the special
tax provided for in this Article to be levied in the Cresaptown Ambulance
Area shall not be levied for the tax year beginning 7-1-1991 and ending
6-30-1992.
For the purpose of providing funds with which to maintain and
operate an Ambulance Company within certain parts of Allegany County,
there is hereby created a special ambulance area, to be known as the
"Cresaptown Ambulance Area," which shall comprise the land particularly
designated and described and being in the bounds, courses and distances
as follows: Beginning at a point standing on the top of Dans Mountain
approximately 0.49 miles (approximately 2,600 feet) southwest of Dans
Mountain Lookout Tower, said point also being the beginning point
of the Rawlings, Maryland Fire Service Area, thence running with the
crest of Dans Mountain, northeast approximately 4.28 miles (approximately
22,600 feet) to the point on the Potomac Edison Company Lake Lynn
Electric Line and being also the southern boundary of District No.
29, LaVale, thence running with said electric line and the southern
boundary of District No. 29, LaVale, approximately 2.5 miles (approximately
13,200 feet) to the crest of Haystack Mountain, thence continuing
with the crest of Haystack Mountain northeasterly approximately 5,000
feet to the southerly limits of the National Freeway, U.S. Route 40/48,
thence with said southerly limits of the National Freeway in an easterly
direction, approximately 4,500 feet to the corporate limits of the
City of Cumberland, thence with said corporate limits in a southerly
direction and crossing U.S. Route 220 approximately 1,700 feet to
the Maryland-West Virginia boundary line in the Potomac River, thence
upstream with said Potomac River approximately 16.29 miles (approximately
86,000 feet), thence leaving said Potomac River and cutting through
Black Oak Bottom northwesterly approximately 1.14 miles (approximately
6,000 feet) to a point standing in U.S. Route 220 at the crest of
a hill in Danville, Maryland, thence leaving said U.S. Route 220 and
continuing in a straight line northwesterly approximately 1.99 miles
(approximately 10,500 feet) to a point standing in the center of a
Potomac Edison Electric Line at the crest of Dans Mountain, thence
running with the crest of Dans Mountain in a northeasterly direction
approximately 4.51 miles (approximately 23,800 feet) to the place
of beginning.
The County Commissioners of Allegany County are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to levy annually against all assessable real
property within the Cresaptown Ambulance Area a tax sufficient, but
not less than $0.05 nor more than $0.10 on each $100 of assessable
real property, to pay the annual expenditures necessary to maintain
and operate the Cresaptown Ambulance Company, its successor or successors,
including payment of encumbrances on real estate or equipment owned
by the Cresaptown Ambulance Area. The annual levy shall be $0.05 per
$100 of assessed real property, unless the Emergency Services Board
of Allegany County certifies to the County Commissioners of Allegany
County within 30 days before the tax levying period for each year
that the amount necessary to operate the Cresaptown Ambulance Company
requires an assessment in excess of $0.05 per $100 of assessable real
property, and the County Commissioners of Allegany County approve
said levy.
The taxes levied for the coming year shall be collected by the
tax collecting authorities for this County, and every 60 days they
shall remit the whole amount of the taxes collected to the Treasurer
of the Cresaptown Ambulance Company, its successor or successors,
upon the Treasurer giving a corporate bond to this County, to be approved
by the County Commissioners and the County Attorney, in a penal sum
to be fixed by the County Commissioners, conditioned upon faithful
discharge of the duties of the Treasurer. From the money so received,
the Cresaptown Ambulance Company, its successor or successors, shall
pay all proper costs, expenses, claims and demands, and such principal
and interest payments on any encumbrance on real estate or equipment
owned by the Cresaptown Ambulance Company, its successor or successors,
as may be due that are necessary to maintain and operate the Cresaptown
Ambulance Company. Should the tax so collected in any one year be
inadequate to defray the costs, expenses, claims and demands, such
deficiency may be added to the amount required for the next year and
be levied and collected in the next year's taxes, provided that
the rate shall not be in excess of that mentioned above.
In addition to the accounting required by § 146-4 of this chapter, the Cresaptown Ambulance Company, for any year in which special moneys are levied, collected and received or requested, shall submit an annual budget to the County Commissioners on or before the 15th day of March in each of such years. The Cresaptown Ambulance Company shall also submit to the County Commissioners, no later than 60 days after the end of the fiscal year, an accounting of all expenditures made during each fiscal year.
The special tax hereinabove provided for shall be levied, collected and paid to the Cresaptown Ambulance Company in addition to the annual appropriation provided for in § 146-4 of this chapter.
