Ch. 41

1999 LAWS OF MARYLAND

relating to failure to pay the prescribed toll at a highway or vehicular crossing is
collected by the District Court pursuant to a local ordinance, law, or regulation of a
political subdivision or municipality, or pursuant to a regulation of an agency of State
government authorized to regulate parking of motor vehicles, or pursuant to a statute
pertaining to the payment of mass transit fares, or pursuant to a statute pertaining to
the failure to pay tolls, it shall be remitted to the respective local government, or to
the State agency.

(2) ANY FINE COLLECTED UNDER TITLE 23, SUBTITLE 4 OF THE

TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE FROM A VIOLATION RELATING TO DIESEL EMISSIONS
SHALL BE REMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND CREDITED TO
THE TRANSPORTATION TRUST FUND.

10-312.

(A)  SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION, IN A PROSECUTION FOR A
DIESEL EMISSIONS STANDARD VIOLATION UNDER TITLE 23, SUBTITLE 4 OF THE
TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE, EMISSIONS TEST RESULTS FROM EMISSIONS TEST
EQUIPMENT AS DESCRIBED IN § 23-402 OF THE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE ARE
ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL IN ANY COURT WITH JURISDICTION OVER THE PROCEEDING
IN THE STATE.

(B) IF AT THE TIME OF TESTING, A DIESEL VEHICLE RAILS TO MEET THE
EMISSIONS STANDARD ESTABLISHED UNDER TITLE 23, SUBTITLE 4 OF THE
TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE, THE FAILURE TO MEET THE ESTABLISHED EMISSIONS
STANDARD SHALL BE PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE THAT THE OPERATOR OF THE DIESEL
VEHICLE VIOLATED THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 23, SUBTITLE 4 OF THE
TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE.

Article - Transportation

12-118.

(b) Out of the money remitted to the State Comptroller under the Maryland
Vehicle Law, the State Comptroller shall:

(1) Pay or retain enough to pay all refunds of taxes or fees provided for in
the Maryland Vehicle Law;

(2) Credit to the Gasoline and Motor Vehicle Revenue Account of the
Transportation Trust Fund the revenues specified in § 8-402 of this article, after
retaining enough to pay:

(i) The salaries and other expenses of the State Highway
Administration in enforcing Title 24 of this article;

(ii) The salaries and other expenses of the Commercial Vehicle
Enforcement Division of the Department of State Police as approved by the
Department in enforcing TITLE 23, SUBTITLE 4 OF THIS ARTICLE, Title 24 of this
article, the provisions of the Tax - General Article on the motor carrier tax, and the
provisions of Title 10 of the Business Regulation Article on motor fuel fraud and
motor fuel tax fraud;