HARRY HUGHES, Governor                              3413

district at the time of the incorporation or annexation
shall be fully assumed by the municipal corporation at the
time of the incorporation or annexation.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the special
taxing area or district created by Chapter 434 of the Acts
of 1922 and known as Section 5 of the Village of Chevy
Chase, Montgomery County, Maryland, shall be abolished in
its entirety when it becomes, in its entirety, a municipal
corporation or when it is annexed, in its entirety, into an
existing municipal corporation; provided that any contract,
obligation, duty, liability, or penalty outstanding on
behalf of the special taxing area or district at the time of
the incorporation or annexation shall be fully assumed by
the municipal corporation at the time of the incorporation
or annexation.

SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July June 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 562

(Senate Bill 872)

AN ACT concerning

Cable Television - Franchises

FOR the purpose of granting specific authority for counties,
incorporated municipalities, and Baltimore City to
engage in community antenna television and cable
television franchising, including exclusive
franchising; permitting the counties, incorporated
municipalities, and Baltimore City to impose franchise
fees, to set rates for cable television services, and
to establish rules governing such franchising; and
generally relating to the authority of the counties,
incorporated municipalities, and Baltimore City over
community antenna systems and cable television
franchising.

BY adding to

The Charter of Baltimore City
Article II - General Powers
Section (35A)
(1964 Revision, as amended)