628                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 454

CORRECTING OR MODIFYING PREVIOUSLY RECORDED
DEEDS, IF THERE IS NO ACTUAL CONSIDERATION PAID OR
TO BE PAID FOR THE EXECUTION OF SUCH SUPPLEMENT-
ARY INSTRUMENT.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.

CHAPTER 454
(House Bill 382)

AN ACT to add new Section 44 of Article 23A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Corporations—Munici-
pal", sub-title "Home Rule", to follow immediately after Section
43 thereof, to expressly authorize certain municipal corporations,
for the purpose of financing storm drainage projects and/or public
parking facilities, to create within their respective corporate limits
special taxing districts for such purposes, and to levy an ad valorem
tax on all real property within such districts subject to certain re-
strictions and limitations.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 44 be and it is hereby added to Article 23A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Corporations—
Municipal", sub-title "Home Rule", to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 43, and to read as follows:

44.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of Article 11E of the
Constitution of Maryland prohibiting any municipal corporation
classified by the General Assembly under the provisions of Section 2
of Article HE of the Constitution of Maryland from levying any
type of tax, license fee, franchise tax or fee which was not in effect
in such municipal corporation on January 1, 1954, unless it shall have
received the express authorization of the General Assembly for such
purpose, by a general law which in its terms and its effect applies
alike to all similarly classified municipal corporations, the General
Assembly hereby expressly authorizes all municipal corporations
in this State within the class created by Section 10 of this Article
for the purpose of financing the design, construction, establishment,
extension, alteration or acquisition of adequate storm drainage
systems and or for the purpose of financing the design, acquisition,
establishment, improvement, extension or alteration of public park-
ing facilities, to create within their respective corporate limits special
taxing districts for such purposes and to levy on all real property

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.