MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1707

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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974..

CHAPTER 453
(House Bill 592)
AN ACT concerning

Real Property Tax Exemptions — Blind Persons

FOR the purpose of providing that the surviving spouse of
a blind person shall retain the exemption from tax
assessment so long as the spouse does not remarry
and remains the owner of and resides on the property
, and providing for the retroactive effect of this
Act.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

Section 9 (g) (2)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 9(g)(2) of Article 81 - Revenue
and Taxes, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

(g) (2) The property of any blind person who has
permanent impairment of both eyes of the following
status: central visual of acuity 20/200 or less in the
better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual
acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in
which the peripheral field has contracted to such an
extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends
an angular distance no greater than twenty degrees on the