3292 ARTICLE 89B

1933, ch. 425, sec. 7D.

17. The State Roads Commission is authorized and empowered, in
its discretion, to expend all or any part of the fund to be allocated to
Maryland under the provisions of the Federal Highway Act (commonly
known as the Post Road Fund) upon any one or more major construction
or reconstruction highway or bridge projects in the State. In the event
the State Roads Commission shall expend, in whole or in part, the portion
of the said Post Road Fund which would have been distributed to a par-
ticular County on a mileage basis as heretofore, upon any such major
project outside of that County, then the State Roads Commission in that
event is authorized and empowered to expend in that County to carry out
the purpose of this Act, from the two cent gasoline tax (imposed by
Section 241 of said Article 56), and the receipts from the office of the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, an amount equal to the sum so expended
on such major project, in addition to the funds to be allocated to that
County under the provisions of Section 9 hereof.

1933, ch. 425, sec. 7E.

18. The State Roads Commission is hereby authorized and empow-
ered to expend a part of the funds at its disposal derived from the Two-
cent Gasoline Tax (imposed by Section 241 of Article 56) or from the
receipts of the office of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, for the grad-
ing, drainage, reconstruction and/or improvement of county roads or
bridges, when such expenditure, in the judgment of the State Roads Com-
mission, will serve as a permanent improvement of the county road con-
cerned, and provided that the road to be so improved, is, in the judgment
of the State Roads Commission, among the county highways which it is
logical and proper to pave or otherwise improve with a view to making
the same an ultimate part of the State Roads System.

1933, ch. 425, sec. 7F.

19. The County Commissioners or other duly constituted local authori-
ties are hereby relieved from the requirements of existing law with respect
to levying a minimum amount or a minimum rate for road maintenance
purposes, and the portion of all public local laws making such requirement
is hereby suspended.

The maintenance of county roads by the State Roads Commission under secs. 9-19
does not relieve the County Commissioners from liability for injuries due to defective
and unsafe condition of the highway. Howard Co. v. Leaf, Daily Record, Oct. 30, 1939.

In action by town of Easton for payments for street improvements required to be
made by county, under sec. 233 of art. 21, Code of Public Local Laws, held that this
section did not suspend local law requiring said payments. Easton v. Talbot Co.,
173 Md. 335.

See sec. 9 and footnote to said section.

1936 (Sp. Sess.), ch. 134.

20. The State Roads Commission is hereby directed to forward to the
Board of County Commissioners of each of the counties not later than 45
days after the close of each month, a statement of the expenditures made
from the funds in the hands of the Commission allocated for each of said
counties and the purposes for which made, such as construction, main-
tenance of county roads and bridges and/or Debt Service, and to segregate
such disbursements according to the Classification adopted for the records
of the Commission. The State Roads Commission is hereby directed to