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Edition), being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Sanitary Dis-
tricts", relating generally to exemption of benefit assessments on
land owned by churches and used by its parsonage and for public
worship; by incorporated improvement associations used for non-
profit public parks or playgrounds; by incorporated non-profit
community health associations for rendering of service by the
Health Department of Anne Arundel County and by a non-profit
incorporated fire company recognized by the County Commissioners
of Anne Arundel County for participation in the district annual
tax levy.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 532 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel
County (1947 Edition), being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Sanitary
Districts", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

532. Any land owned by Church, and constituting the premises oc-
cupied by such or its parsonage, and used exclusively for public wor-
ship or for other religious or customary purposes of a Church or
parsonage and not for investment, gain or other secular purposes
[,]; any land owned by a bona fide incorporated improvement asso-
ciation and used exclusively for free public parks or playgrounds to
which no admission is charged and not for investment or gain; any
land owned by a bona fide incorporated non-profit Community Health
Association on which improvements are erected in which health
services are conducted by the Health Department of Anne Arundel
County, and any land owned by a bona fide incorporated non-profit
fire company which is given official recognition by the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County for participation in the district
annual tax levy, shall be exempt from the benefit assessments pro-
vided for by this sub-title in respect of a frontage of not exceeding
150 feet. The Commission may, in its discretion, exercise in each
individual case, grant or withhold a further exemption of land so
owned and used in respect of any footage thereof in excess of 150
feet hereinabove provided for.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved March 25, 1957.

CHAPTER 360
(House Bill 710)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3 of
Chapter 761 of the Acts of 1943 as said Act was last amended by

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