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ment), title "Corporations—Municipal", sub-title "Home Rule",
sub-heading "Special Taxing Districts", providing that municipal
corporations may create special taxing districts in which they
may levy, assess, and collect taxes, on all real property subject to
ordinary city taxes, AND PERSONAL PROPERTY for the pur-
pose of creating and maintaining parking districts and/or pedes-
trian malls.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 44 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1962 Supplement), title "Corporations—Municipal", sub-title
"Home Rule", sub-heading "Special Taxing Districts", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

44.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of Article HE of the Con-
stitution of Maryland prohibiting any municipal corporation classi-
fied by the General Assembly under the provisions of Section 2 of
Article 11E 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 sys-
tems, and for the purpose of financing the design, acquisition, estab-
lishment, improvement, extension, operation or alteration of public
parking facilities, or pedestrian malls, to create within their respec-
tive corporate limits special taxing districts for such purposes and
to levy on all real AND PERSONAL property subject to ordinary
city taxes located within said special taxing districts an ad valorem
tax at a rate sufficient to provide adequate annual revenues to pay
the principal and interest on any bonds or other obligations of such
municipality issued for such purposes as the said principal and inter-
est may become due. All such taxes shall be levied in the same
manner, upon the same assessments, for the same period or periods,
and as of the same date or dates of finality as are now or may here-
after be prescribed for ordinary city taxes.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved April 30, 1963.

CHAPTER 601
(House Bill 35)

AN ACT to repeal and re enact, with amendments, Section 3 (6)
of Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title Pensions," subtitle "In General," to permit former mem-
bers of the Teachers' Retirement System who had withdrawn their