(a) The tax credits provided by this subchapter shall apply to transfers of land or interests therein in taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2000.

(b) Any taxpayer claiming a tax credit under this subchapter may not claim a credit under any similar Delaware law for costs related to the same project. A taxpayer may not claim a tax credit under this subchapter for lands or interests in land a portion of which constitutes the taxpayer’s entire holdings and where the taxpayer has sold or has contracted to sell to the State the balance of such lands or interests in land for open space, biodiversity, land conservation or historic preservation purposes.

(c) Any tax credits which arise under this subchapter from the donation of land or an interest in land made by a pass-through tax entity such as a trust, estate, partnership, limited liability corporation or partnership, limited partnership, Subchapter S corporation or other fiduciary shall be used either by such entity, in the event it is the taxpayer, on behalf of such entity, or by the member, manager, partner, shareholder and/or beneficiary, as the case may be, in proportion to their interest in such entity in the event that income, deductions and tax liability passes through such entity to such member, manager, partner, shareholder and/or beneficiary. Such tax credits may not be claimed by both the entity and the member, manager, partner, shareholder and/or beneficiary for the same donation.

(d) The total amount of tax credits to be made available under this subchapter shall not exceed $10,000,000. The aggregate amount of such tax credits available in any 1 tax year shall not exceed $1,000,000 and shall be allocated to taxpayers for eligible projects in accordance with the rules and regulations to be established as set forth in § 1805 of this title.

(e) [Repealed.]

72 Del. Laws, c. 254, § 1; 73 Del. Laws, c. 6, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 135, §§ 1-3.