§ 9-205. Manufacturing, fabricating, or assembling facilities

   (a) Authorizing credit. -- The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation may grant, by law, a property tax credit under this section against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on part or all of the property of any manufacturing, fabricating, or assembling facility that:

   (1) locates in the county or municipal corporation;

   (2) expands in the county or municipal corporation; or

   (3) develops a new product or industrial process.

(b) Amount. -- A property tax credit under this section may be granted on up to 100% of the county or municipal corporation property tax against the property described in subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Duration. -- A property tax credit granted under this section may be granted for the period of years from the date of completion of a new facility or expansion of a facility that the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the appropriate governing body determines.

(d) Regulations. -- The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the appropriate governing body may:

   (1) adopt regulations necessary to carry out this section; and

   (2) provide any other restriction or condition considered desirable.

(e) Administrator. -- The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or each governing body shall designate the administrative unit or official to administer the property tax credit granted under this section.

(f) Notice. -- When a tax bill is sent to a taxpayer who may be eligible for a property tax credit under this section, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the appropriate governing body shall give notice of the property tax credit under this section to the taxpayer.

(g) Applications. --

   (1) A taxpayer must apply to receive a tax credit under this section.

   (2) Except in Frederick County, if a taxpayer fails to apply for a property tax credit under this section on or before October 1 of each taxable year, the property tax credit may not be granted.

   (3) In Frederick County, a taxpayer may apply for a property tax credit under this section on or before October 1 of the taxable year, and the property tax credit received shall continue from year to year until the property is conveyed.

   (4) A taxpayer shall state under oath that the facts in the application are true.

(h) Submitting copy of property tax credit law. -- Each governing body that grants a property tax credit under this section shall submit to the Department a copy of the law granting the credit.

(i) Exclusion from State aid to education, counties or municipal corporations. --

   (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, to the extent that a county grants a tax credit under this section for manufacturing personal property described in § 7-225 of this article, the personal property may not be treated as taxable personal property for the purpose of computing any payments of State aid to education under § 5-202 of the Education Article or other payments of State aid to counties or municipal corporations that by law are based on the assessment of property.

   (2) Paragraph (1) of this subsection does not apply to any manufacturing personal property unless the county that grants a tax credit under this section for the property submits to the Department, on or before October 31 of the taxable year for which the credit is granted:

      (i) the information required under § 9-201(b) of this subtitle regarding the tax credit; and

      (ii) an itemized list of the property tax credits granted for manufacturing personal property described in § 7-225 of this article.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 81, § 9C; 1985, ch. 8, § 2; 1986, ch. 822; 1996, ch. 174; 1998, chs. 659, 764; 2000, ch. 492, § 2; ch. 493, § 2.