4447
BOONSBORO

BOONSBORO TO ABEND THE TOWN CHARTER

This Resolution of the Council of the Mayor and
Council of Boonsboro, Maryland, is adopted pursuant to
the authority of Article XI—E of the Constitution of the
State of Maryland and Article 23A Section 13 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, to amend the Charter of the
Mayor and Council of Boonsboro as said Charter appears in
the Code of Public local Laws of Washington County, 1970
Edition, by amending Section 3—62 thereof entitled
"Partial exemptions from Town taxes for certain persons,
authorized."

SECTION 1, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the
Mayor and Council of Boonsboro, that the Section 3—62 of
the Charter of the Mayor and Council of Boonsboro,
entitled "Partial exemptions from town taxes for certain
persons, authorized." as the same appears in the Code of
Public Local Laws of Washington County (1970 Ed.) , be,
and the same is hereby amended by eliminating from said
section that part thereof which is hereinafter enclosed
in double parentheses, and by adding thereto the new
matter which is typed in capital letters.

3—62 Partial exemptions from town taxes for certain
persons, authorized.

(a) Authorized provisions. Notwithstanding the
provisions of Sections 3—60 and 3—61 of this Charter to
the contrary, the Mayor and Council by ordinance duly
passed, is authorized and empowered, to grant partial
exemptions AND TAX CREDIT from real property taxes
imposed by it not to exceed [the maximum exemption
obtainable under the following qualifications: Age —
sixty five (65) years or over for one owner or sixty—five
(65) years or over for one joint owner. Residency — bona
fide residence as a permanent home in the property for
which the exemption is sought in the town of Boonsboro
for the three (3) years next preceding the date of the
application for the exemption; Income — total gross
income from all sources or combined total gross income of
joint owners from all sources, as the case may be, not
exceeding two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars in the
calendar year next preceding the fiscal year for which
the exemption is sought; Ownership — legal or beneficial
title to the real property for which the exemption is
sought either individually or together with others as
tenants by the entirety, joint tenants or tenants in
common; Number of Exemptions — only one (1) exemption for
anyone (1) property irrespective of the number of owners
residing therein and regardless of their individual
incomes; Maximum Amount of Exemption — two thousand five
hundred ($2,500.00) dollars or fifty (50) per cent of the