SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                     1719

No. 30
(Senate Joint Resolution 59)

Senate Joint Resolution, requesting the Legislative Council to study
the tax mechanism for encouraging commercial and industrial
interests to install air and water pollution control devices, with
a view to developing a long range State policy on financing such
installations.

Consideration should be given to devising a mechanism whereby
State policy will specify that private interests be relieved of a certain
percentage of capital costs of air and water pollution abatement
devices by establishing guide lines for such incentives.

Any such study should be directed to take into account the aggre-
gate effect of Federal, State and local tax incentive provisions.

The study should also incorporate a control mechanism, as far as
State and local incentives are concerned, under which the incentive
would be allowed subject to approval by the appropriate State
authority prior to installation.

Consideration should also be given to establishing further control
by providing in future legislation that tax incentives initially allowed
would be immediately due and payable in whole or in major part at
such time that the quality of the effluent or emission failed to meet
designed standards over a reasonable period of time, subject to
reasonable opportunity for hearing and appeal; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Legisla-
tive Council be directed to make such a study, and report to the
Governor on its findings on or before October 1, 1967; and be it
further

Resolved, That copies of this Resolution be sent to the Governor,
the State Health Department, and the members of the Legislative
Council.

Approved May 4, 1967.

No. 31
(Senate Joint Resolution 61)

Senate Joint Resolution expressing the appreciation and commenda-
tion of the General Assembly to the Commission to study the
Correctional System of Maryland.

Whereas, On July 21, 1966, Governor J. Millard Tawes announced
in a public statement the appointment of a blue-ribbon commission
to make a thorough examination of the Maryland Correctional Sys-
tem, including all of the penal institutions, the Patuxent Institution
and the Department of Parole and Probation. The Commission was
requested to report to the Governor such recommendations as it
determined to be necessary to effectuate the operation of a high
calibre correctional system, and