Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0195    Version: 0 Name: Property Tax Credits - Newly Constructed Dwellings
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 9/8/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/11/2010
Enactment #:
Title: Property Tax Credits - Newly Constructed Dwellings FOR the purpose of extending the time for filing applications for a credit against the tax imposed on newly constructed dwellings; providing a grace period for certain dwellings previously purchased; repealing an obsolete provision; altering the termination date of the credit program; and generally relating to property tax credits for newly constructed dwellings.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, Warren Branch
Indexes: Dwellings, Newly-constructed, Property Tax Credit, Tax Credits
Attachments: 1. 08-0195 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. BDC - 0195.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Property Tax Credits - Newly Constructed Dwellings

FOR the purpose of extending the time for filing applications for a credit against the tax imposed on newly constructed dwellings; providing a grace period for certain dwellings previously purchased; repealing an obsolete provision; altering the termination date of the credit program; and generally relating to property tax credits for newly constructed dwellings.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 28 - Taxes
Section(s) 10-5(c), (d), and (j)
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing
Article 28 - Taxes
Section(s) 10-5(e)
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Code

Article 28. Taxes

Subtitle 10. Credits

ยงย 105. Newly constructed dwellings.

(c) Qualifications.

The owner of a newly constructed dwelling may qualify for the tax credit authorized by this section by:



(1) purchasing a newly constructed dwelling;

(2) occupying that dwelling as his or her principal residence;

(3) filing an application for the credit no later than [90 days] 1 YEAR after settling on the purchase of the dwelling;

(4) for each taxable yea...

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