J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                                 69

CHAPTER 75
(Senate Bill 184)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 52
of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Collectors and Collections",
changing the present requirement that the collectors' bonds for
collection of county and Baltimore City taxes be given to the State
of Maryland to be that such bonds shall be given to the county
commissioners, or to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or
to the County Council of Montgomery County, or to the County
Executive of Baltimore County, as the case may be.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 52 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Collectors and
Collections", be, and it is hereby, repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

52.

As to county taxes, every collector before he acts as such, shall
give bond to the [State of Maryland] county commissioners, county
council, or county executive, as the case may be, in such penalty as
may be prescribed by the county commissioners, county council, or
county executive, as the case may be, but in no case less than the
penalty fixed by existing local laws, with good and sufficient sureties
to be approved by the county commissioners, county council, or
county executive, as the case may be; and the collector of city taxes
in the City of Baltimore, before he acts as such shall give bond to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore in such penalty as may be
prescribed by the ordinances of the mayor and city council to be
approved by the mayor and president of the city council. The con-
dition of such bonds shall be that if the above bound * * * shall
well and faithfully execute his office and shall account for and pay
to the county commissioners, county council, or county executive, as
the case may be, or to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, if
in said city, or their order, the several sums of money which he
shall receive for the county or city, as the case may be, or be answer-
able for by law, at such times as the law shall direct, then the said
obligation to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and
virtue in law.

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

Approved February 27, 1961.

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.