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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Excise Tax on Passenger-for-Hire Services - Temporary, Retroactive Repeal
FOR the purpose of temporarily repealing the law providing for the imposition, administration, and collection of an excise tax on passenger-for-hire services; providing for a special, retroactive effective date; and providing for the automatic termination of this Ordinance on a date certain.
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BY temporarily repealing
Article 28 - Taxes
Subtitle 24 - Passenger-for-Hire Services
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)
SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That City Code Article 28, Subtitle 24 {“Passenger for Hire Services”}, is repealed, retroactive to June 18, 2013.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That any tax levy under City Code Article 28, Subtitle 24 {“Passenger for Hire Services”}, after June 18, 2013, and before the effective date of this Ordinance, is void and of no effect, and any payments of that tax, whenever made, must be refunded.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted. It will remain in effect until the 180th day after the enactment of this Ordinance, at which time, without further action by the Mayor and City Council: (i) this Ordinance will be abrogated and of no further effect; and (ii) City Code Article 28, Subtitle 24 {“Passenger for Hire Services”}, will be revived and again come into effect as it was before the enactment of this Ordinance.
dlr13-735~intro/13Nov13
Art. 28, Sub.24/TaxiTx, TempRepeal/aa:me