134 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 66

299. (License Fees. ) The annual license fee for each
trailer coach park shall be $25. 00 for each block of 10
trailer coach spaces or fraction thereof, provided that the
maximum license fee for one trailer coach park shall not
be more than [$250. 00] $500. 00.

In addition to the annual license fee there shall be a
[quarterly tax of $12. 00 for each trailer coach occupying
space therein] tax of $1. 00 per week, or fraction thereof
in excess of 72 hours, for each trailer coach occupying
space therein. This tax shall be credited to the General
Fund, Howard County, Maryland, and the return shall be
filed quarterly. The fee for the transfer of a license as
provided in this Act shall be $5. 00.

299A. Every person, firm or corporation operating any
trailer coach park shall issue a receipt for the aforesaid
weekly tax to each trailer coach occupant, on forms to be
furnished to said trailer coach park operator by the Board
of County Commissioners of Howard County, and shall also
return with the quarterly return of the aforesaid tax a
duplicate copy of each receipt so issued to such trailer park
occupants.

309. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpo-
ration to maintain or use or permit to be maintained or
used any trailer coach which is occupied for dwelling or
sleeping purposes on any ground or place, the title to which
ground or place is not owned by the person, firm or corpo-
ration owning such trailer coach, except in a duly licensed
trailer coach park; provided that non-paying guests of the
owner of such ground or place shall be permitted to main-
tain or use not more than one trailer coach on such ground
or place.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having 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 of Maryland, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 9, 1953.