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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 270

(e) Property owned by (1) any incorporated or
unincorporated nonprofit hospitals, and asylums (but not
exceeding 100 acres of land appurtenant to any hospital
or asylum); or by (2) any nonprofit charitable, fraternal
OR SORORAL, benevolent, educational, or literary
institutions or organizations, including public libraries
subject to the provisions of Chapter 16 of Article 77 of
this Code and nonpolitical, nonstock MEN'S OR women's
clubs (but not exceeding 100 acres of land outside any
city appurtenant to any institution or organization);
when any of such property described above is actually
used exclusively for and necessary for charitable,
benevolent, or educational purposes (including athletic
programs and activities of an educational institution) in
the promotion of the general public welfare of the people
of the State. In the case of fraternal OR SORORAL
organizations, the exemption shall extend only to those
existing solely for the mutual benefit of their members
and beneficiaries, which have a lodge system with
ritualistic form of work and a representative form of
government, and this term shall not mean any college or
high school fraternities or sororities or other fraternal
OR SORORAL organizations with membership which is
restricted wholly or largely to students or graduates of
educational institutions or professional schools. This
exemption shall also extend to any property used for the
purposes set out in this subsection, which is held by a
corporation or association or by trustees for the sole
benefit of any of the above organizations. In the case
of a nonprofit housing corporation this exemption shall
not extend to the property of the nonprofit housing
corporation based solely on the fact that it is a
nonprofit housing corporation; but rather, on the fact
that the corporation's property is, in fact, devoted to a
charitable, benevolent, educational or general public
welfare purpose.

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

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 271
(Senate Bill 60)

AN ACT concerning

Sexual Discrimination — Issuance of Club License