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Calvert County, MD
 
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[Adopted 7-10-2007 by Ord. No. 20-07]
There is a Chesapeake Ranch Estates Special Taxing District.
The purpose of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates Special Taxing District is to provide funds for the improvement of roads and other infrastructure within the Chesapeake Ranch Estates Subdivision and to cover the administrative costs of the Property Owners Association of Chesapeake Ranch Estates.
The boundaries of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates Special Taxing District shall be all of the land within the boundaries of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates Subdivision as such boundaries are shown on the various plats creating the Chesapeake Ranch Estates Subdivision and all of its sections, which are recorded among the land records of Calvert County, Maryland.
[Amended 6-26-2012 by Ord. No. 42-12; 6-11-2013 by Ord. No. 23-13; 5-7-2019 by Ord. No. 09-19; 6-27-2023 by Ord. No. 20-23]
A. 
The Special Taxing District shall be extended to remain in existence for one year beginning with the 2024 fiscal year that commences on July 1, 2023, and ending on June 30, 2024.
B. 
An assessment in the amount of $10 is levied against each recorded lot within the taxing district. The annual assessment shall be for the fiscal year that commences on July 1, 2023.
(1) 
A recorded lot shall be any numbered lot shown on any recorded subdivision plat of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates Subdivision or any lot created by the combination of any originally recorded lots, provided that such combination has been duly recorded among the Land Records of Calvert County.
(2) 
Any recorded lot that receives a tax credit under Article V of this Chapter 136 and any lot titled in the name of the Property Owners' Association of Chesapeake Ranch Estates, Inc., shall be exempt from the levy of the special tax.
C. 
The special tax assessment levied within the Chesapeake Ranch Estates by this article shall be collected from the funds of the District remaining on June 30, 2023.
[Amended 6-26-2012 by Ord. No. 42-12; 6-11-2013 by Ord. No. 23-13; 5-7-2019 by Ord. No. 09-19; 6-27-2023 by Ord. No. 20-23]
A. 
The funds paid shall be returned to the Property Owners' Association of Chesapeake Ranch Estates, Inc., in accordance with that agreement set forth at Subsection B, below, for construction of the improvements and other approved uses.
B. 
Before any funds generated by the Special Taxing District are paid over to the Property Owners' Association of Chesapeake Ranch Estates, the Property Owners' Association of Chesapeake Ranch Estates and the Board of County Commissioners shall execute an amendment to the existing agreement outlining the administration of the Special Taxing District, extending that agreement for one additional year.