§ 65-3. Annual levy; treasurer's bond; payments from county; purposes for which funds to be used.

The county council for Montgomery County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to levy and cause to be collected from the property owners at the time of the county tax levy for the year commencing July 1, 1916, and ending June 30, 1917, and each succeeding year, within the said village known as Drummond, as named and created by this chapter, fourteen cents ($0.14) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assessable value of the real property other than operating real property of a public utility and thirty-five cents ($0.35) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assessable value of the personal property and operating real property of a public utility in said village, to be collected as all other county taxes in said county are collected; to be paid over by said county council to the treasurer of the committee herein authorized to be created, or his successors selected by the majority of the members as said committee, upon said treasurer having been duly selected by a majority of said committee, and giving corporate bond to Montgomery County, Maryland, satisfactory to and approved by the county manager and the county attorney in a penal sum to be fixed by them, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of said treasurer; the said county council shall also order and have paid over to said treasurer the proportion of the county road tax to be levied and collected in the same manner as though said Village of Drummond was an incorporated town, and the said village shall for that purpose, be considered by said county council as an incorporated town in said county; all of said funds to be used directly by or through said committee, exclusively for opening, improving, widening, maintaining, repairing and lighting the streets, roads, lanes, approaches, alleys, sidewalks, parking, drainage, sewerage, sanitation and other village improvements, and for furnishing police and fire protection, clerical and other public service, including the removal of ashes, garbage and other refuse, and the disposal thereof, and for the enforcement of the requirements of all conveyances for properties situated in said village, and for enforcing such building, sanitary and other regulations as said committee, subject to the approval of the county council may prescribe for said village, or for any part thereof. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 65-3; 1916, ch. 22, § 2; 1951, ch. 558, § 1; 2003, ch. 247.)