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VETOES

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 81 - Revenue and Taxes

Section 49C(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 81 - Revenue and Taxes

49C.

(b) If a business begins doing business OR AN EXISTING
BUSINESS EXPANDS TO A NEW LOCATION in the county after the date
of finality for any particular year and does not own real
property in the county, the business, to ensure payment of the
personal property tax, shall pay to the local tax collector a
fee in the amount that the governing body of the county
determines.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

May 29, 1984
The 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 309.

This bill would amend Section 20-107(d) of the
Health-General Article to provide civil and criminal immunity for
a health care facility that renders medical treatment under
certain circumstances to a disabled individual who lacks capacity
to consent to the treatment.

Today I have signed House Bill 159 and Senate Bill 433 which
comprehensively rewrite Section 20-107 in its entirety. The
Attorney General has determined in the attached letter that there
is an irreconcilable conflict between the comprehensive revision
contained in the two bills I have signed and House Bill 309
because the former were specifically amended to delete a