Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor      249

CHAPTER 30
(Senate Bill 39)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
8 (35) (a) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition—being Section 7(35) (a) of Article
81 as enacted by Chapter 90 of the Acts of 1950), title
"Revenue and Taxes," sub-title "Ordinary Taxes, What
Should be Taxed and Where," exempting certain real
property of certain disabled veterans from taxation
AND EXEMPTING FROM TAXATION UP TO AN
ASSESSED VALUATION OF $6,000, THE DWELL-
ING AND CERTAIN OTHER REAL PROPERTY BE-
LONGING TO PERSONS EITHER BLIND OR HAV-
ING DEFECTIVE VISION AS DEFINED HEREIN.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 8(35) (a) of Article 81 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition—being Section
7(35) (a) of Article 81 as enacted by Chapter 90 of the
Acts of 1959), title "Revenue and Taxes," sub-title "Ordi-
nary Taxes, What Should be Taxed and Where," be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

8.
(35)

(a) The dwelling house and the lot or curtilage
whereon the same is erected, of any citizen and resident
of this State, now or hereafter honorably discharged or
released under honorable circumstances, from active serv-
ice, in time of war, in any branch of the armed forces, who
has been or shall be declared by the United States Veterans
Administration or its successors to have a service-con-
nected disability from paraplegia or permanent paralysis
of both legs and lower parts of the body resulting from
traumatic injury to the spinal cord or brain,

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or from the amputation of both arms or both
legs, or by reason of amputation, ankylosis, progressive
muscular dystrophies or paralysis of both lower extremi-
ties, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of

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