Ch. 261                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 637

COMPANIES IN PAYMENT FOR PRODUCTS SOLD.)] IN PAYMENT
FOR PRODUCTS SOLD AND SERVICES, RENDERED SUCH CREDIT
CARDS AS DIRECTED BY THE MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION
AUTHORITY. In the event an acceptable bid shall be received in the judgment of
the Commission, each such lease shall be awarded to the highest responsible bidder
therefor, but no person shall be awarded or have the use of, nor shall motor fuel
identified by the trade marks, trade names or brands of any one supplier,
distributor or retailer of such fuel be sold at more than one service station if they
would constitute more than twenty-five per centum of the service stations on the
entire project..

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 7, 1973.

CHAPTER 261
(Senate Bill 959)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 283(c) and 323(a) of
Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume),
title "Revenue and Taxes," subtitle "Income Tax," to provide that the
Comptroller shall certify and make payment to certain incorporated
municipalities from income taxes collected by certain counties an amount equal
to a specified percentage of the net taxable income of the residents of the
municipalities.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 283(c) and 323(a) of Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Revenue and Taxes,"
subtitle "Income Tax," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

283.

(c) Any local income tax imposed under the provisions of this section shall be
administered by the Comptroller of the Treasury who shall collect and account for
the revenue, crediting all such funds to a local income tax fund hereby established
in the State treasury. Local income taxes imposed pursuant to this section shall be
subject to the provisions of § 312 of this subtitle relating generally to withholding
at the source, declaration of estimated tax due, and remittance thereof to the
Comptroller.

After deducting the cost of any refunds and the prorated share of the cost of
operating the Income Tax Division, the Comptroller shall pay over the balance to
the appropriate local fiscal authority. All such payments shall be made by the
Comptroller as soon as practicable. As often as practicable but not less frequently
than every calendar quarter the Comptroller shall pay over and distribute TO THE
INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES OF THE STATE THE RESPECTIVE
AMOUNT TO WHICH THEY MAY BE ESTIMATED TO BECOME
ENTITLED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF § 323(A) OF THIS ARTICLE,
AND to the counties of the State and to Baltimore City the respective amounts to
which they may be estimated to become entitled under the provisions of this
section which have been received in the form of withholding and estimated taxes