MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                           1103

CHAPTER 161
(Senate Bill 906)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County — Church Property

FOR the purpose of making a change in terminology
relating to church property in St. Mary's County;
and clarifying language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County
Section 177

Article 19 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1965 Edition and 1974 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 177 of the Public Local Laws of
St. Mary's County being Article 19 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1965 Edition and 1974 Supplement,
as amended) be and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 19

177.

Any land owned by a church, and constituting the
premises occupied by [such] A CHURCH or its parsonage,
and used exclusively for public worship or for other
religious or customary purposes of a church or parsonage
and not for investment, gain or other secular purposes,
shall be exempt from the [benefit] DEBT SERVICE
assessments provided for by this sub—title in respect of
a frontage of not exceeding 150 feet. The Commission may,
in its discretion, exercise in each individual case,
grant or withhold a further exemption of the land so
owned and used in respect of any frontage thereof in
excess of 150 feet hereinbefore provided for.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 8, 1975.