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such existing or potential proximity will or may result
in: 1. The lowering of property values; 2. A change in
the racial, religious, or ethnic character of the block,
neighborhood or area in which the property is located; 3.
An increase in criminal or antisocial behavior in the
area; or 4. A decline in quality of the schools serving
the area.

(2) For any person, firm, corporation or
association to solicit or attempt to solicit the listing
of dwellings for sale, or lease, by door to door
solicitation, in person, or by telephone, or by mass
distribution of circulars, for the purpose of changing
the racial composition of the neighborhood.

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

Approved May 31, 1974.

CHAPTER 849
(Senate Bill 528)
AN ACT concerning

Income Tax — Oil Percentage Depletion Allowance

FOR the purpose of providing that the amount to be added
to federal adjusted gross income under the Maryland
income tax laws shall include any amount claimed
under the oil percentage depletion allowance of the
Internal Revenue Code.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes
Section 280A(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 280A(b) of Article 81 - Revenue
and Taxes, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is