Ground rent extinguishment, provisions altered.........................

Tax increment financing, use of bond proceeds for construction
or rehabilitation of buildings that are abandoned or distressed
property or will provide affordable housing, provisions added .

Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program, altered
and extended; Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit
Reserve Fund, established .............................................................

Neighborhood intervention project sponsored by a local
government to demolish improvements on a property to prepare
property for revitalization or redevelopment, Community
Legacy Program financial assistance for, provisions added .......

Sudlersville, authority to undertake urban renewal projects for

slum clearance and redevelopment, provisions added ................

Use Tax SEE Sales and Use Tax
Usury SEE Interest
Utilities —

SEE ALSO Telephones; Water

Electric and gas utilities, assessment of the restructuring of State
and local taxes on the utilities in light of competition and the
restructuring of the utility industries, report required...............

Electricity generating equipment property tax grant,
appropriation for ............................................................................

Environmental surcharge on electrical energy distributed to retail
customers in the State, termination date extended ....................

Gas service installations serving customers from liquified
petroleum gas storage tanks, jurisdiction of Public Service
Commission over, provisions altered ............................................

Net energy metering, provisions altered to include wind electric
generating facilities and more solar electric generating facilities

Public Service Commission regulations and orders, challenge of
validity of regulation, and challenge of decision to act by order
rather than regulation, provisions altered ...................................

Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard for retail electricity sales,
market-based renewable energy credit system, and Maryland
Renewable Energy Fund, establishment; study of impact of
wind-power facilities on birds and bats, provisions added ........

St. Mary's County -

Metropolitan Commission, nonvoting member added to

represent the interests of the U.S. Navy ..................................

Solar Energy Grant Program -

Appropriation to .............................................................................

Established .....................................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

480	2234
405	1466
76	378
499	2332
400	1443
430	1927
429	1598
181	704
100	498
542	2573
99	496
487	2258
488	2278
394	1429
429	1840
128	567