MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             2011

City, and on instruments of writing described in
subsections (s) and (t) hereof filed with the State
Department of Assessments and Taxation, except for liens
or encumbrances upon vehicles which are filed and offered
for record with the Motor Vehicle Administration, [and]
except for liens or encumbrances upon vessels which are
filed and offered for record with the Department of
Natural Resources, provided that conveyances to the State
or any agency thereof or any political subdivision of the
State shall not be subject to the tax or charge imposed
by this section. The term "instruments of writing" shall
include deeds, mortgages, chattel mortgages, bills of
sale, leases, deeds of trust, contracts and agreements,
and shall also include a filed financing statement under
the Uniform Commercial Code used to publicize any of the
types of a secured transaction which prior to enactment
hereof were subject to the tax hereby imposed but shall
not include mechanic's liens, crop liens, or security
agreements relating to farm products or equipment used in
farming operations, purchase—money mortgages, assignments
of mortgages OR DEEDS OF TRUST, conditional sales
contracts or other purchase—money security agreements or
a security agreement relating to the assignment of
contract rights, accounts, general intangibles or
inventory as these terms are defined in the Uniform
Commercial Code or a filed financing statement under the
Uniform Commercial Code used to publicize any of the
same, judgments, releases [or], orders of satisfaction.

(d) Upon deeds of trust or mortgages conveying
property lying partly within and partly without the
State, the tax shall apply only to such proportion of the
debt secured as the value of the property within this
State bears to the value of the whole property conveyed.

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

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 730

(House Bill 1093)

AN ACT concerning

Insurance — Psychiatric Care

FOR the purpose of providing that certain health

insurance policies issued or delivered in Maryland

shall offer [[benefits for certain partial

psychiatric]] the option of providing benefits for