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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 33

AN ACT concerning

Licenses — Tax

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the issuance of licenses to
certain businesses without the prior certification of
certain officials that certain State, county, and
municipal taxes on the businesses have been paid.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 — licenses

Section 2A(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 56 — Licenses

2A.

(a) A license provided for in this article shall not
be issued by a clerk of court unless there is presented to
him at the time of application, a receipt or certificate
[from] THAT CONTAINS THE CERTIFICATION OF the supervisor of
assessments in the county or [the bureau of assessments] in
Baltimore City showing the values of the merchandise,
fixtures, and stock in trade for the business for which the
license is applied, for the calendar year next preceding
that for which the license is applied. The receipt or
certificate ALSO shall [show also] CONTAIN THE CERTIFICATION
OF THE COUNTY TREASURER, OR, IN BALTIMORE CITY AND IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, AND THE
CERTIFICATION OF ANY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN WHICH THE
BUSINESS IS LOCATED that there are no unpaid taxes on the
merchandise, fixtures, and stock due to the municipal
corporation [or], TO THE county [in which the business is
located], or to the State [of Maryland].

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

Approved April 3, 1978.

CHAPTER 34
(House Bill 170)
AN ACT concerning