HARRY HUGHES, Governor

717

CHAPTER 153

(Senate Bill 567)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County - Dog Licenses

FOR the purpose of excluding Washington County from certain
provisions of law concerning dog licenses; requiring the
Board of County Commissioners of Washington County to
prescribe by ordinance or resolution the manner in which
certain powers, duties, and responsibilities concerning dogs
shall be exercised; and generally relating to the regulation
of dog licenses in Washington County.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 193(a) and 197(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 193(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 194(a) and (i), 197(b), 198, and 199

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

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

Article 56 - Licenses

193.

(a) The county commissioners of the several counties shall
prepare, and furnish annually to the county treasurer, and to the
tax collecting officer, metal tags to be given the owners of dogs
when such owners shall pay the license fee for said dogs. Such
tags shall be of metal, and shall have serial number
corresponding with the number on the license issued to said
owner, as provided in § 191. Such tags shall also have impressed
thereon the calendar year for which such tag is issued, and shall