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under the penalties of perjury. In any case where the alternative
procedures provided in this section are utilized (i) the statement
of acknowledgment shall have the same legal effect as an acknowl-
edgment before a person authorized to take acknowledgments and
(ii) the statements otherwise required to be verified under oath shall
be subject to the penalties of perjury to the same extent as if the
same had been verified under oath.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That Sections 128, 129, 130
and 131 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition and 1966 Supplement), title "Corporations," subheading "I.
Stock Corporations," subtitle "Fees, Recording and Filing with the
State Tax Commission," be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows; and that the
title of said subtitle be repealed and re-enacted with amendments to
read as follows:

Fees, Recording and Filing with the State Department of
Assessments and Taxation

128. Recording or Filing of Charter and Other Papers.

(a)    The [Commission] Department shall not accept for record
any charter paper of a corporation of this State, which is not in
conformity with law but any instrument purporting on its fact to
have been acknowledged may be considered by the [Commission]
Department as properly acknowledged.

(b)    The [Commission] Department shall not accept for record
or filing any charter paper, qualification, registration, change of
resident agent or principal office, report, service of process or notice
or other paper until all recording, filing and other special fees, and
the bonus tax (if any) payable by law, have been paid to the [Com-
mission] Department.

(c)    Upon acceptance for record of any charter paper, or paper
designating or changing the name or address of a resident agent
or principal office, of any corporation of this State, the [Commission]
Department shall indorse thereon the date and time of acceptance
for record and shall promptly record such charter or other paper
and the indorsement in a book to be kept for that purpose. After
such recording, the [Commission] Department shall transmit the
charter or other paper to the clerk of court of the county in which
is located the principal office of the corporation. The clerk of court
shall record the charter or other paper in a book to be kept for that
purpose, and shall then return the same to the corporation or its
attorney or agent.

(d)    After acceptance for record of any charter paper, the
[Commission] Department shall issue a certificate stating that such
paper has been accepted for record by the [Commission] Department,
and the date and time of such acceptance for record by the [Com-
mission] Department.

129. Charter Papers Not Recorded with State Department of
Assessments and Taxation.

The [Commission] Department may refuse to accept for record
or filing any charter paper of any corporation of this State unless