THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 67

receipts of a person, association or corporation conducting
race meetings; provided, however, that Baltimore City,
in taxing the receipts from motor vehicle operations, may
only tax receipts from operations of motor vehicles hav-
ing a permit or permits from the Public Service Com-
mission of Maryland authorizing both the taking on and
discharging of passengers at more than one point within
Baltimore City and/or the transportation of passengers
between two or more points within said City.

(c) Subject to the limitations herein provided, the
powers herein granted to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall be in addition to any powers which it now
has and nothing herein shall be construed in any way to
impair or diminish the powers now possessed by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; and the collection
of any tax or taxes heretofore imposed under the authority
of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Extraordinary Session of
1945 or Chapter 1 of the Act of the Extraordinary Ses-
sion of 1947, shall not be affected hereby.

(d) The restrictions contained in Section 1 of Article
66½, Section 218 of Article 81 and Sections 8A, 293 and
294 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
shall not restrain or limit the exercise by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore of the powers herein granted
to tax gross receipts, and to the extent of any inconsist-
ency in said sections and this sub-section (33½), the
provisions of this sub-section (33½) shall prevail; and
all other laws, or parts of laws, inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this sub-section (33½) be and they are hereby
repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any provision
of this Act or any application thereof is held to be invalid,
unconstitutional or inoperative, the remainder of this Act
and all other applications thereof shall not be affected
thereby, it being the legislative intent that the remainder
of this Act shall be effective notwithstanding such in-
validity.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1951.

Approved March 8, 1951.