1008                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                               Ch. 224

purposes (including athletic programs and activities of an
educational institution) in the promotion of the general
public welfare of the people of the State. In the case of
fraternal or sororal organizations, the exemption shall
extend only to those existing solely for the mutual benefit
of their members and beneficiaries, which have a lodge
system with ritualistic form of work and a representative
form of government, and this term shall not mean any college
or high school fraternities or sororities or other fraternal
or sororal organizations with membership which is restricted
wholly or largely to students or graduates of educational
institutions or professional schools. This exemption shall
also extend to any property used for the purposes set out in
this subsection, which is held by a corporation or
association or by trustees for the sole benefit of any of
the above organizations. In the case of a nonprofit housing
corporation this exemption shall not extend to the property
of the nonprofit housing corporation based solely on the
fact that it is a nonprofit housing corporation; but rather,
on the fact that the corporation's property is, in fact,
devoted to a charitable, benevolent, educational or general
public welfare purpose.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 225

(House Bill 1500)

AN ACT concerning

Carroll County - Department of Public Works

FOR the purpose of establishing procedures to reimburse the
Carroll County General Fund for any expenses
attributable to work performed by the county for the
purpose of assisting in engineering and construction of
needed water, sewerage and drainage systems out of the
General Fund; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Carroll County
Section 15-15

Article 7 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1976 Edition and 1979 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws