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(b) Any county or Baltimore City enacting a local income tax
pursuant to this section shall certify to the Comptroller of the
Treasury on or before July 1st of any year the date of adoption of
the ordinance or resolution imposing the tax and the rate of the tax
[for such calendar year]. The effective date of any tax imposed
pursuant to this section shall be January 1 of any calendar year, and
no such tax so imposed shall be repealed or the rate changed effective
on any date other than December 31 of any calendar year.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 479
(House Bill 538)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 162 of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement
Volume), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Crimes and
Punishments," subheading "Fraud—Boardinghouse, Hotel, etc.,"
placing the fraudulent obtaining of food or beverage at restau-
rants, taverns or the like and the fraudulent obtaining of
beverages at hotels, inns, boardinghouses, hospitals or sanitari-
ums under the criminal sanctions relating to the fraudulent
obtaining of food or accommodation at hotels, inns, etc., and
correcting an error.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 162 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume), title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-
title "Crimes and Punishments," subheading "Fraud—Boarding-
house, Hotel, etc.," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

162.

Every person who shall at any restaurant, tavern or the like, or at
any hotel, inn, boardinghouse, hospital [[or]] or sanitarium receive
or cause to be furnished any food, beverage, or accommodation and
shall fraudulently fail to pay in full for same, whether or not such
person shall have made any payment on account, and every person
who shall obtain credit at any restaurant, tavern or the like, or at
any hotel, inn, boardinghouse, hospital or sanitarium by the use
of any false pretense or device, or by fraudulently depositing at such
restaurant, tavern or the like, or at any hotel, inn, boardinghouse,
hospital or sanitarium any baggage or property of a realizable value
less than the amount of such credit or of the bill by such person
incurred whether or not such person shall have made any payment
on account; and every person who, after obtaining credit or accom-
modation at any restaurant, tavern or the like, or at any hotel, inn,
boardinghouse, hospital or sanitarium shall abscond or fraudulently
depart or fraudulently remove his baggage therefrom without dis-
charging the debts as aforesaid incurred, whether or not such person