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VETOES

is potentially damaging. Currently sales of various
services and commodities provided by certain groups are
exempt from imposition of the sales tax as are sales to
certain organizations. However, none of the present sales
tax exemptions apply to sales at a specified location or
proprietorship.

My concern that enactment of this bill will lead to a
proliferation of specific business exemptions is heightened
by the fact that House Bill 1141 was itself subjected to
such proliferation as a result of the adoption of an
amendment that provides for yet a third exemption beyond the
two exemptions that were listed in the bill as it was
originally introduced.

While I am appreciative of the fine work being
performed by volunteers at the sites mentioned in this bill,
I am persuaded that its enactment would be but a prelude to
numerous other sites seeking similar exemptions.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

House Bill No. 1176

AN ACT concerning

Howard County - Tax Credits - Newly Constructed
Dwellings

FOR the purpose of eliminating changing the automatic
expiration provision of the tax credit for unsold or
unrented newly constructed dwellings in Howard County.

May 27, 1980
Honorable Benjamin L. Cardin
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the
Maryland Constitution, I have today vetoed House Bill 1176.

This measure would extend until 1982 the tax credit
which Howard County is authorized to grant for unsold and
unrented newly constructed dwellings.