The county council for Montgomery County shall levy and cause to be collected from the property owners at the time of the county tax levy, for the year commencing July 1, 1914, and ending June 30, 1915, and each succeeding year, within the Village of Friendship Heights, as named and created by this chapter, the rate, not less than four cents ($0.04) nor more than twenty cents ($0.20) 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 not less than ten cents ($0.10) nor more than fifty cents ($0.50) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assessable value of personal property and operating real property of a public utility in the villages, which is specified to it on or before June 1 by the village council after public hearing held thereon by the village council, to be collected as all other county taxes in the county are collected; to be paid over by the county council to the treasurer of the village council herein authorized to be created, or his successors, selected by the majority of the members of the village council, upon the treasurer having been duly selected by a majority of the members of the village council, and giving corporate bond to Montgomery County, Maryland, satisfactory to and approved by the chief administrative officer and the county attorney in a penal sum to be fixed by them, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of the treasurer, and the county council shall also order and have paid over to the treasurer the proportion of the county road tax to be levied and collected in the same manner as though the Village of Friendship Heights was an incorporated town, and the village shall, for the purpose, be considered by the county council as an incorporated town of the county. All of the funds may be used directly by or through the village council for acquiring, building, renovating, altering, or removing structures for public use; and for providing sewerage, sanitation and other village improvements, and amenities; recreation, parks, and for furnishing police and fire protection, administrative, clerical, maintenance, and other public service, including the removal of ashes, garbage and other refuse and the disposal thereof, for carrying out any other general police and health power function pursuant to this chapter; and providing for the constructing, improving, widening, maintaining, repairing, and lighting of streets, roads, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, and drainage structures. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 66-2; 1914, ch. 131, § 2; 1951, ch. 558, § 1; 1975, ch. 779; 1977, ch. 661, § 1; 1980, ch. 230, § 1; 1994, ch. 81, § 1; 2003, ch. 247.)
