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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 293

(House Bill 344)

AN ACT concerning

Property Tax Exemption - Hart-Miller-Pleasure Islands

FOR the purpose of repealing a superfluous reference to a
property tax exemption for the Hart-Miller-Pleasure Island
Chain.

BY repealing

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Section 7-213

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (S.B. 1) of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1985)

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

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[7-213.

Property is not subject to property tax if the property is

held as an easement by the Maryland Environmental Trust on the

Hart-Miller-Pleasure Island Chain in Baltimore County and is
used:

(1)  to maintain the island chain as an open area;

(2)  to assist the State in making park and
recreational facilities available to the public for recreational
and educational purposes; and

(3)  to redeposit the spoil and the Baltimore County
tributary spoil as provided by §§ 8-1601 through 8-1602.2 of the
Natural Resources Article.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect February 1, 1986.