WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 12

3. It finds that the licensee has no alternative means of

transportation available to or from the licensee's place of employment and, without the
license, the licensee's ability to earn a living would be severely impaired.

(2) If the licensee refused to take an alcohol test, the Administration may
not modify a suspension under this section or issue a restrictive license.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is an
emergency measure, is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health
and safety, has been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall take
effect from the date it is enacted.

Approved March 30, 1990.

CHAPTER 12
(House Bill 1339)

AN ACT concerning

Property Tax Credits Reform Act of 1990

FOR the purpose of providing for the temporary extension of a certain homeowner
property tax credit without application of Q certain income factor in computing the
amount of the credit; creating a property owner's bill of rights; specifying certain
rights and procedures available to a property owner concerning the taxation of the
owner's property; requiring the Department of Assessments and Taxation to
advertise certain information under certain conditions; altering the contents of a
notice or advertisement required to be made by certain taxing authorities;
establishing for certain taxable years the percentage to be used for the assessment
of certain real property; altering the information required to be included in a
certain notice used for assessments; altering certain conditions used to determine
eligibility for a certain homestead property tax credit; requiring the credit to be
included on certain homeowners' tax bills; making a certain homestead property
tax credit applicable to the State property tax; requiring the Department to adopt
rules and regulations to implement the credit; altering certain factors used in
computing the credit; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City
and the governing body of a county to set, by law, certain factors used in
computing the credit in the county or Q municipal corporation in the county;
requiring a county to notify each municipal corporation within the county and to
hold a public hearing under certain circumstances before taking certain actions
grant certain supplements to a certain homeowners tax credit program based on
the income of the homeowners; establishing certain duties and responsibilities
with regard to those supplements; requiring the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore City and the governing body of a county to set a certain homestead
property tax credit percentage; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore City and the governing body of a county to alter a certain homestead

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