SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor 189
WHICH ARE OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY TO RESIDENTS
OF A SUBDIVISION OR TO PERSONS, FIRMS OR CORPORA-
TIONS DOING BUSINESS WITHIN A SUBDIVISION OR TO
PERSONS, FIRMS OR CORPORATIONS EARNING INCOME
WITHIN A SUBDIVISION. THE INTENT OF THIS SECTION
IS TO PROHIBIT THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS FROM
LEVYING, IMPOSING, OR COLLECTING TAXES OR FEES
KNOWN GENERALLY AS INCOME TAXES, EARNINGS TAXES,
PAYROLL TAXES, OR GENERAL OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE
TAXES OTHER THAN AS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBTITLE.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That Section 33 of Article
89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume),
title "State Roads," subtitle "Distribution and Use of Special Funds,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and
that new Section 33A be and it is hereby added to said title and
subtitle, to follow immediately after said Section 33 thereof, to read
as follows:
33.
Thirty percent of the monies paid into the Gasoline Tax Fund
during any fiscal year, together with the funds added thereto pur-
suant to Section 38 (2) of this article, shall be distributed monthly to
the mayor and city council of Baltimore to be used for the con-
struction, reconstruction or maintenance of the streets and highways
of the City of Baltimore, AND (FOR THE FISCAL YEARS OF 1968
AND 1969 ONLY) FOR DEFRAYING THE COSTS OF THE PO-
LICE DEPARTMENT OF BALTIMORE CITY INCURRED IN
CONNECTION WITH THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF
VEHICULAR TRAFFIC IN BALTIMORE CITY, NOT TO EXCEED
THE SUM OF FOUR MILLION DOLLARS ($4,000,000.) IN EACH
OF THESE TWO FISCAL YEARS or for the payment of debt service
with respect to bonds or other evidences of debt heretofore or here-
after issued by the City of Baltimore for the construction, reconstruc-
tion or maintenance of streets and highways of the City of Baltimore,
and for no other purposes, except as provided in Section 33 A of this
article: Provided, however, that no such distribution shall be made
to said mayor and city council of Baltimore unless it shall have
levied, in its current fiscal year, taxes sufficient to collect a minimum
of one dollar per capita in revenue and unless it shall have certified a
copy of said levy to the State Comptroller; and provided further,
that any moneys, otherwise distributable under this section, which
shall not be distributed at the close of the fiscal year of the mayor
and city council of Baltimore because of failure of said mayor and
city council to make such levy or certification, shall revert to the
Gasoline Tax Fund, to be paid over separately to the State Roads
Commission, for use by the Commission with the other moneys
received from the Gasoline Tax Fund. Per capita revenue shall be
computed for purposes of this section by using the population figures
furnished by the latest federal census or by an official local census,
whichever is latest.
33A.
Of the monies paid to the City of Baltimore prior to July 1, 1967
1968, pursuant to Section S3 of this article, One Million Eight Hun-
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