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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved March 16, 1976.

CHAPTER 13
(Senate Bill 315)

AN ACT concerning

Corrective Bill — Maryland Port Administration

FOR the purpose of correcting technical errors in the
laws relating to the Port Administration.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 62B — Maryland Port Administration

Section 18(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 18(b) of Article 62B - Maryland
Port Administration, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it
is hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article 62B - Maryland Port Administration

18.

(b) The right and power of any county and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to impose annually
taxes on land and improvements thereon, present and
future, acquired and developed by the Administration,
within their respective limits, shall be retained by such
political subdivisions; but this right to impose taxes
does not apply to land and improvements thereon acquired
from the political subdivision, nor does the right to
impose taxes apply to any cargo—handling facilities owned
or leased, as lessor or lessee, by the Port
Administration, and the land used solely in conjunction
therewith, whether purchased, erected, constructed or
leased prior to or subsequent to June 1, 1966. These
cargo—handling facilities and land are exempt from all
ordinary taxes and benefit assessments to the owner of
the facilities, to the Administration, and to the lessees
of the Administration from the date when the property was
or may hereafter be purchased, erected, constructed or