MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            1347

BY THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE MADE AND THE TAX OR TAXES
SHALL NOT BE COLLECTED IN ANY YEAR TO THE EXTENT THAT, ON
OR BEFORE MAY 1, 1975, AND ON OR BEFORE MAY 1 IN EACH
TAXABLE YEAR THEREAFTER THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
DETERMINES UPON A CERTIFIED STATEMENT RENDERED TO THE
BOARD BY THE STATE COMPTROLLER THAT PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL
AND INTEREST ON THE BONDS ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS ACT
WILL BE MET DURING THE ENSUING TAXABLE YEAR FROM FUNDS
APPROPRIATED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AS PROVIDED IN
SECTION 6 OF THIS ACT. UPON, AND TO THE EXTENT OF, SUCH
DETERMINATION BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, THE GOVERNOR
SHALL, BY PROCLAMATION ISSUED PURSUANT TO A RESOLUTION OF
THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, DECLARE THAT THE TAXES
REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE COLLECTED OR LEVIED
IN SUCH ENSUING TAXABLE YEAR.

All matters committed by this Act to the discretion
of the Board of Public Works shall be determined by a
majority of said Board.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay
vote supported by three—fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 294
(Senate Bill 24)
AN ACT concerning

Bingo - Baltimore City

FOR the purpose of permitting in Baltimore City bona fide
organizations composed of persons 60 years of age
and older formed primarily for social purposes to
conduct bingo games, subject to certain conditions.

BY adding to

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 260A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)