MD ECONOMIC DEV. CORP. v. MONTGOMERY CO.

No. 44, September Term, 2012.

64 A.3d 478 (2013)

431 Md. 189

MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 9, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane Festino Schmitt ( John Anthony Wolf and Elissa F. Borges of Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, MD; G. Vann Canada, Jr. , Jeffrey P. Reilly , and James J. Demma of Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Rockville, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Scott R. Foncannon , Associate Co. Atty. ( Marc P. Hansen , Co. Atty., and Karen L. Federman Henry , Division Chief, Office of the Co. Atty., Rockville, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, BARBERA, JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


ADKINS, J.

In this case, we return to our well-established rules of statutory interpretation, searching for the Legislature's intent in granting the Maryland Economic Development Corporation ("MEDCO") a tax exemption "from any requirement to pay taxes or assessments on its properties or activities." Md.Code (2008), § 10-129(a) of the Economic Development ("ED") Article. We look first and foremost to the plain meaning of the statute by applying a common-sense...

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