J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     755

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 446
(House Bill 390)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 4 (g)
of Article 62B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Supple-
ment), title "Maryland Port Authority," amending the Maryland
Port Authority Act to include in the definition of the term "port
facility," space in any international trade center leased to govern-
mental agencies.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 4 (g) of Article 62B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1965 Supplement), title "Maryland Port Authority," be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

4.

(g) (1) The term "port facility" shall mean and shall include,
without intending thereby to limit the generality of such term, any
one or more of the following or any combination thereof: lands, piers,
docks, wharves, warehouses, sheds, transit sheds, elevators, compres-
sors, refrigeration storage plants, buildings, structures and other
facilities, appurtenances, and equipment necessary or useful in con-
nection with the operation of a modern port and every kind of ter-
minal or storage structure or facility now in use or hereafter
designed for use in the handling, storage, loading or unloading of
freight or passengers at steamship terminals, and every kind of
transportation facility now in use or hereafter designed for use in
connection therewith.

(2) The term "port facility" also shall mean and shall include
an international trade center constituting a facility of commerce
and consisting of one or more buildings, structures, improvements
and areas necessary, convenient or desirable in the opinion of the
Authority for the centralized accommodation of functions, activities
and services for or incidental to the transportation of persons by
water, the exchange, buying, selling and transportation of commodi-
ties and other property in international and national waterborne trade
and commerce, the promotion and protection of such trade and
commerce, and governmental services related to the foregoing and
other federal, State and municipal agencies and services, including
but not limited to foreign trade zones, offices, marketing and exhibi-
tion facilities, terminal and transportation facilities, custom houses,
custom stores, inspection and appraisal facilities, parking areas,
commodity and security exchanges, and, in the case of buildings,
structures, improvements and areas in which such accommodation is
afforded, shall include all of such buildings, structures, improvements
and areas, notwithstanding that other portions of such buildings,
structures, improvements and areas may not be devoted to purposes
of the international trade center other than the production of inci-