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Officials debate codifying online tax-sale advertising amid legal concerns
Summary
Treasurer and committee members discussed codifying current tax-sale advertising practices (including online notices) and reducing newspaper advertising frequency; a pending Baltimore-area lawsuit and local safeguards factored into resistance to reducing print notices.
Washington County officials discussed proposed language to codify the county’s current tax-sale notification practices, including online advertising and a reduction in required newspaper notices.
Treasurer Matt Breeding, who leads county tax-sale administration, told the committee the county is required by law to conduct tax sales but that his proposal would codify current practices — chiefly advertising tax-sale properties online to mirror practices in other counties and to reduce duplicative newspaper costs. He said…
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