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No. 66
(House Joint Resolution 32)

House Joint Resolution requesting the Legislative Council to study
the practice of assessing property for purposes of property taxa-
tion, with a view towards ascertaining the feasibility and desir-
ability of reassessing all property annually.

Whereas, The Annotated Code of Maryland provides in Article 81,
Section 14, for annual assessments of personal property but continu-
ing assessments of real property; and

Whereas, Normal practice results in the reassessment of real prop-
erty only about once in four years, although property values change
substantially from year to year; and

Whereas, The present practice results in discrimination between
taxpayers whose assessments are up to date and other taxpayers
whose assessments are out of date, and results in a loss of revenue
to the state and local governments in periods of rising property
values; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Legis-
lative Council of Maryland be requested to study the assessment sys-
tem with a view towards ascertaining the feasibility and desirability
of using computer projections to reassess all property each year on
the basis of its current true value; and that the Legislative Council
be requested to report its recommendations to the 1971 session of the
General Assembly.

Approved April 28, 1970.

No. 67
(House Joint Resolution 111)

House Joint Resolution endorsing the wish of the Montgomery
County Delegation to the Maryland General Assembly that the
entire road shown as F-4, Northern Parkway on the April 1967
map, preliminary Master Plan for Highways for Montgomery
County, be deleted.

Whereas, a majority of the Montgomery County Delegation to the
Maryland General Assembly voted for the deletion of the Northern
Freeway from the Twenty-Year Highway Needs Study at a meeting
in Annapolis on February 2, 1970, and voted for a transportation
study of the Georgia Avenue Corridor; and

Whereas, the Interstate section of the Twenty-Year Highway
Needs Study still contains provision for Beltway Exit 22 and a con-
necting link between the Northern Freeway and the Maryland por-
tion of the North Central Freeway, said link frequently referred to
as the "Woodside Spur"; and

Whereas, the deletion of the Northern Parkway north of the Belt-
way eliminates the need for Beltway Exit 22 interchange and the
connecting link to the North Central Freeway, both of which were
planned as integral parts of the said Northern Freeway; and