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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

reason, such invalidity shall not affect the other
provisions or any other application of this Ordinance
which can be given effect without the invalid provisions
or application, and to this end, all the provisions of
this Ordinance are hereby declared to be severable.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this
Ordinance shall take effect forty—five (45) days from the
date it becomes law.

Approved April 3, 1974.

Bill No. 33-74

AN ORDINANCE to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments. Section 17—203(a) of the Anne Arundel County
Code (1967 Edition and Supplements), Title 17,
"Taxation", Subtitle 2, "Assessment and Levy", (as last
amended by Bill No. 135—73), to make some technical
corrections in the law; to authorize tax credits from
real property taxes to recipients of disability benefits
under the Railroad Retirement Act or benefits from the
United States Civil Service Commission; to define the
method of computing gross income to qualify for said
credit; and matters generally related thereto.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND, That Section 17-203(a) of
the Anne Arundel County Code (1967 Edition and
Supplements), Title 17, "Taxation", Subtitle 2,
"Assessment and Levy", (as last amended by Bill No.
135—73) be, and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

Section 17-203.

(a) In accordance with the provisions of [section]
SECTIONS 12D AND 12F [(a) and (c)] of article 81 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume AND
1973 CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT), and there is hereby created
a single tax credit from real property taxes upon the
dwelling of a qualified applicant (as hereinafter set
forth), which tax credit shall equal fifty (50) percent
of the assessed value of such dwelling, or four thousand
five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) whichever is the lesser
amount, (but in no event less than three thousand dollars
($3,000.00) of assessed value); multiplied by the