LODGE #817, ORDER OF ELKS v. SUPERVISOR

[No. 45, September Term, 1981.]

292 Md. 533 (1982)

439 A.2d 531

LODGE #817, TRUSTEES BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS v. SUPERVISOR OF ASSESSMENTS OF WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick L. Rogan, Jr., for appellant.

Kaye Brooks Bushel and T. Scott Basik, Assistant Attorneys General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question in this case is whether a fifty-seven acre golf course owned by a nonprofit fraternal organization and used exclusively by its members and authorized guests is exempt from real property taxation under Maryland Code (1957, 1980 Repl. Vol.), Article 81, § 9 (e). That section, in pertinent part, exempts from taxation specified charitable, benevolent and educational property as follows:

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