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to enable the County Commissioners to appropriate monies in the
annual county budget TO THE CARROLL COUNTY ASSOCIA-
TION FOR RETARDED CHILDREN for certain private non-
profit organizations.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 34MM be and it is hereby added to the Code of
Public Local Laws of Carroll County (1965 Edition, being Article 7
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Carroll County,"
subtitle "County Commissioners," to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 34LL thereof, as last amended by Chapter 171 of the Acts of
1966, and to read as follows:

34MM.

The County Commissioners may appropriate a sum to be paid to
private nonprofit organizations with objectives to promote the health,
education, public welfare and community betterment of the county,
in the respective amounts set up by the County Commissioners in the

annual budget for the county. THE CARROLL COUNTY ASSO-

CIATION FOR RETARDED CHILDREN TO BE DETERMINED
BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved April 6, 1971.

CHAPTER 21
(House Bill 182)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 9-10 (c)
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1969 Edition,
being Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Baltimore City," subtitle "Landlord and Tenant," amend-
ing the landlord and tenant laws applicable in Baltimore City in
order to correct an error in the laws concerning retaliatory acts
by landlords.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 9-10(c) of the Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore
City (1969 Edition, being Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland), title "Baltimore City," subtitle "Landlord and Tenant,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

9-10.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) hereof, the landlord may
take action to recover possession or to increase the rent, as the case
may be, if he can show that any of the following conditions exist:

(1) The conditions which formed the basis of the tenant's action
enumerated under subsection (b) hereof were caused by an act or