THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 13

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 8(35) (a) of Article 81 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Revenue
and Taxes, " sub-title "Ordinary Taxes. What Shall be
Taxed and Where, " as amended by Ch. 30 of the Acts of
1952, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with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 service, in time
of war, in any branch of the armed forces, who has been or
shall be declared by the United States Veterans Admin-
istration or its successors to have a service-connected
disability from total blindness, or from paraplegia or perm-
anent paralysis of both legs and lower parts of the body
resulting from traumatic injury to the spinal cord or brain,
or from the amputation of both arms or both legs, or by
reason of amputation, ankylosis, progressive muscular
dystrophies or paralysis of both lower extremities, such
as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces,
crutches, canes or wheel chair. The dwelling house and
the lot or curtilage whereon the same is erected of any
blind person shall also be exempt from taxation, up to an
assessed valuation of $6, 000. in any instance; and for the
purpose of this sub-section a person shall be considered
blind if he has a permanent impairment of both eyes of
the following status: central visual acuity of 20/200 or less
in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual
acuity of more than, 20/200 if there is a field defect in which
the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that
the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular dis-
tance no greater than twenty degrees in the better eye.
Such exemption shall be in addition to any other exemption
of such person's real and personal property which now is
or hereafter shall be prescribed or allowed by the Con-
stitution or by law, but no taxpayer shall be allowed more
than one exemption under this sub-section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved February 25, 1953.