PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 623

Article 33 - Election Code

16-12.

(d) A voter may not be accompanied into a voting booth or voting machine by any
person over the age of [five] 14 10 years unless the affidavit required by subsection (c)
has been accepted by the election judges.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 22, 1997.

CHAPTER 623

(Senate Bill 712)

AN ACT concerning

Property-Tax Credit Tax Credits - Businesses That Create New Jobs

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the
governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a property tax
credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on certain
real property and personal property; providing for the eligibility criteria for the
property tax credit including requirements for the construction, expansion, or lease
of a certain minimum number of square feet on which the business entity conducts
its business and the creation of a certain minimum number of new permanent
full-time positions; prohibiting the property tax credit to be granted under certain
circumstances; providing for the computation of the property tax credit; requiring a
certain notification; requiring certain lessors to reduce a certain liability of certain
lessees; authorizing requiring the governing body of the county or municipal
corporation to provide, by law, for certain other provisions to implement the
property tax credit; requiring the State to reimburse a county or municipal
corporation for certain amounts in a certain manner granting a State tax credit
against the individual or corporate income tax, insurance premium tax, financial
institution franchise tax, or the public service franchise tax, under certain
conditions; providing for the computation of certain State tax credits; prohibiting
the application of a certain State tax credit more than once; providing for the
carryover of certain excess State tax credits; requiring the adoption of certain
regulations; defining certain terms; and generally relating to a property tax credit
for certain property owned or leased by providing for the application and
termination of this Act; and generally relating to certain tax credits for certain
businesses that create new jobs.

BY adding to

Article - Tax - Property

Section 9-229

Annotated Code of Maryland

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