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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

New laws take effect in Maryland on July 1

ANNAPOLIS, Md. —New laws approved in Maryland's last legislative session are taking effect on July 1.

Eight things to know about them:

STORMWATER FEES

State-mandated stormwater management fees will end, but nine counties and the city of Baltimore will need to show they are paying to meet federal mandates to clean polluted stormwater.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan campaigned against the state-mandated fees, which were approved in the last hour of the 2012 legislative session, and he made repeal a priority of his first session. Critics referred to the fees as "the rain tax."

The repeal measure that passed earlier this year by wide margins in both houses of the Maryland Legislature has the approval of environmentalists, because it creates greater accountability for the state's 10 most populated jurisdictions in preventing pollution in stormwater from entering the Chesapeake Bay.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Approval of environmentalists,like they control the state...

Anonymous said...

lol police accountability reporting? wants to know how a kop died in the line of duty but no requirement to report how many people the kops beat and kill in the process! lemme guess kops lives matter?
no more then mine! the hippies had it right, PIGS!