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    Bag Tax

    Metadata Updated: January 3, 2026

    On May 3, 2011 Montgomery County passed legislation (Bill 8-11) that places a five-cent charge on each paper or plastic carryout bag provided by retail establishments in the County to customers at the point of sale, pickup or delivery. Retailers retain 1 cent of each 5 cents for the bags they sell a customer.  This dataset represents information that has been captured since this law went into effect. Update Frequency - Monthly

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from montgomerycountymd json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2026
    Publisher data.montgomerycountymd.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/api/views/xnjh-vgc4
    Data First Published 2016-10-27
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-01
    Category Finance/Tax/Property
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 0b8c77a1-a4c2-4075-8ca6-35d2f978212c
    Harvest Source Id 8d269e22-ff3d-45d8-b878-47ef2aba7851
    Harvest Source Title montgomerycountymd json
    Homepage URL https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/d/xnjh-vgc4
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d6fd35d57dc7c5593b6f258d3e805cff4b67b34b83192f86a4e08bb028f3674a
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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