STATE DEPARTMENT OF ASSESSMENTS AND TAXATION v. METROVISION OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, INC.

No. 1450 September Term, 1991.

92 Md. App. 194 (1992)

607 A.2d 110

STATE DEPARTMENT OF ASSESSMENTS AND TAXATION v. METROVISION OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, INC.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

May 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Lyon, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief) Baltimore, for appellant.

Todd K. Snyder, Stephen L. Owen and Venable, Baetjer and Howard for amicus curiae, Television Ass'n of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, Inc.

Robert H. Rosenbaum (Cathleen F. Ward and Meyers, Billingsley, Shipley, Curry, Rodbell & Rosenbaum, P.A., on the brief) Riverdale, for appellee.

Argued before Moylan, Bishop and MOTZ, JJ.


MOTZ, Judge.

This case involves the questions of whether the cost of "drop cables" installed by a cable television company and the "make ready" costs of the company are subject to the State's personal property tax.

(i)

Appellee, Metrovision of Prince George's County, Inc. (Metrovision), is a cable television company servicing 58,000 homes in southern Prince George's County. The "drop cables" in dispute consist of cables running from a tap in a feeder...

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