Boonsboro                                           2037

BOONSBORO

Washington County

Resolution of the Council of

The Mayor and Council of Boonsboro to amend

the Town Charter

Resolution of the Council of the Mayor and Council of Boonsboro,
adopted pursuant to the authority of Article 11-E of the Constitution
of Maryland and Section 13 of Article 23-A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Corporations-Municipal," sub-title "Home Rule," sub-
heading "Charter Amendments," as said section was enacted by
Chapter 423 of the Laws of Maryland of 1955, to amend the Charter
of the Mayor and Council of Boonsboro, as said Charter appears in
the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington County (1957 Edition),
by adding a new section to said Charter immediately following Sec-
tion 94 thereof, to be known as Section 94A, such new section pro-
viding that, notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 93 and 94 of
said charter, the Mayor and Council, by ordinance duly passed, is
authorized and empowered to grant partial exemptions from real
property taxes imposed by it, not to exceed a specified maximum, to
certain qualified persons; said new section providing that the Mayor
and Council is authorized to establish and change the qualifications
necessary to entitle persons to such partial exemptions but not below
those specified as property owners who are of age 65 or over, who have
a total gross income or combined total gross income, of $2,000.00 or
less per year and who have resided in said property for the preceding
3 years; that the Mayor and Council is prohibited from granting an
exemption or deduction from assessment greater than $2,500.00 or
50% of the assessed valuation whichever is lesser, that the Mayor
and Council is prohibited from altering any of the specified qualifica-
tions in such manner that a greater number of persons would
become entitled to said exemption than would be entitled if said
qualifications were strictly applied, but that the Mayor and Council
may tighten said qualifications, impose other restrictions, reduce
said exemption figure, not grant any exemption or repeal any exemp-
tion previously granted.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Mayor and
Council of Boonsboro that the Charter of the Mayor and Council of
Boonsboro be amended by adding a new section thereto to be known as
Section 94A to follow immediately after existing Section 94; said new
section to read as follows:

94A. Partial exemption from Town taxes for certain persons
authorized.

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 93 and 94 of this
Charter to the contrary, the Mayor and Council by ordinance duly passed,
is authorized and empowered to grant partial exemptions from real prop-
erty taxes imposed by it not to exceed the maximum exemption obtainable
under the following qualifications: AGE—sixty-five (65) years or over
for one owner or sixty-five (65) years or over for one joint owner; RESI-
DENCY—bona fide residence as a permanent home in the property for
which the exemption is sought in the Town of Boonsboro for the three
(3) years next preceding the date of the application for the exemption;
INCOME—total gross income from all sources or combined total gross
income of joint owners from all sources, as the case may be, not exceeding