STATE v. BURNING TREE CLUB, INC.

No. 106, September Term, 1987.

315 Md. 254 (1989)

554 A.2d 366

STATE OF MARYLAND ET AL. v. BURNING TREE CLUB, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Zarnoch, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. and Kaye Brooks Bushel, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), Annapolis, for appellant.

Benjamin R. Civiletti (James A. Dunbar and Venable, Baetjer and Howard, on brief), for appellee.

Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith — Daniel Goldstein and Brown & Goldstein, Baltimore, Livia D. Thompson, Jill L. Kahn, Justin J. Finger, Jeffrey P. Sinensky, Meyer Eisenberg, Harold Heller, New York City, for amicus curiae.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

In 1965, the Maryland General Assembly enacted Chapter 399 of the Acts of 1965, then codified as Maryland Code (1957, 1965 Cum.Supp.), Art. 81, § 19(e), and presently codified as Code (1986, 1988 Cum.Supp.), § 8-213 of the Tax-Property Article, which authorized the State to enter into agreements with private country clubs under which the clubs would maintain their land as open spaces in exchange for favorable assessment of those lands for...

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