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the next taxable year, exclusive of properties appearing for
the first time on the assessment records.

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

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 314

(House Bill 146)

AN ACT concerning

Assessments - Personnel

FOR the purpose of deleting certain provisions that relate
to appointment of certain personnel for annual surveys
of assessment ratios in the subdivisions and for
valuation of certain exempt property.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

Section 232(14) and 232B

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

232.

The jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the
Department herein created, and the Director thereof, shall
extend under this article:

(14) To provide for annual surveys of assessment
ratios in the 23 counties and Baltimore City beginning
January 1, 1970. The Director shall prescribe the manner
in which each survey is to be conducted. [He shall appoint
a full—time staff of competent and experienced assessors who
shall hold their positions during good behavior, subject
only to removal by the Department after a hearing for
incompetency or other cause. The number of personnel for
and the expenses incident to the survey, including travel,
lodging, and meals, shall be as provided in the Department's
annual budget.]

232B.