5264

COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

WITH A COMMISSION ORDER UNDER SECTION 27-33(G) , OR TO
HAVE WILLFULLY DESTROYED PERSONNEL OR EMPLOYMENT RECORDS
REQUIRED TO BE KEPT BY THIS ARTICLE, SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
A FINE OF UP TO $1,000.00 AND COSTS.

Sec. 2. Severability.

The provisions of this Act are severable and if any
provision, sentence, clause, section or part thereof is
held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional or inapplicable
to any person or circumstance, such illegality,
invalidity, unconstitutionality, or inapplicability shall
not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions,
sentences, clauses, sections or parts of the Act or their
application to other persons and circumstances. It is
hereby declared to be the legislative intent that this
Act would have been adopted if such illegal, invalid or
unconstitutional provision, sentence, clause, section or
part had not been included therein, and if the person or
circumstances to which the Act or any part thereof is
inapplicable had been specifically exempted therefrom.

Sec. 3. Effective date.

This Act shall take effect on the 76th day following
the date on which it becomes law.

Approved September 20, 1973

Chapter 10

Bill No. 37-7 3

AN ACT to add a new subsection (g) to Section 52—21,
title "Levied; amount", Chapter 52, title "Finance and
Taxation", of the Montgomery County Code 1972, to follow
immediately after subsection (f) thereof and to authorize
the Director of Finance to make a refund to the taxpayer
who most recently paid the transfer tax pursuant to
subsection (d) of Section 52—21 on property assessed as
farmland, where subsequent to the payment of such
transfer tax, there is paid after July 1, 1972, and
within three (3) years of payment of the transfer tax, on
the same property or a portion thereof, the amount
required to develop such property for non—agricultural
purposes pursuant to Section 19 (b) (2) (B) Article 81,
Annotated Code of Maryland, 1972 Cumulative Supplement.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL FOR MONTGOMERY