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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED,   That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved April 11, 1978.

CHAPTER 163

(House Bill 1632)

AN ACT concerning

Queen Anne's County — Recordation Tax Stamps

FOR the purpose of changing the date permitting the County
Commissioners of Queen Anne's County to review the
status of the open-spaces land and recreation fund; and
making this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

Section 278(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

278.

(c) In Queen Anne's County, the proceeds from the
sale of State stamps at the rate of 55¢ of each $500.00 or
fractional part thereof of actual consideration or debt
secured shall be deposited in an open—spaces land and
recreation fund to be disbursed therefrom by the County
Commissioners for general recreational purposes. After May
1, [1978] 1989, the County Commissioners may review the
status of the open—spaces land and recreation fund and may,
in their discretion, direct that the proceeds from the 55¢
rate be placed thereafter into the general fund of the
county.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.