Bag Tax

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

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"montgomerycountymd-gov/bag-tax-xnjh-vgc4\".\"bag_tax\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.