1360 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 560

roadway sub-grades, shoulders, median dividers, drainage
facilities and structures, roadway cuts, roadway fills, guard
rails, bridges, highway grade elimination structures, railroad
grade elimination structures, tunnels, overpasses, underpasses,
and other structures forming an integral part of a road or
highway.

(B) (State Highway System.) The term "State High-
way System" means that system of roads which are from
time to time owned by the State and which the State Roads
Commission by resolution from time to time designates as
State roads to be maintained and operated by the Commis-
sion.

(C) (State Road.) The term "State road" means any
public road included in the State highway system.

(D) (County Roads.) The term "county roads" means
any public roads, excluding State roads, and including hard-
surfaced or paved streets of municipalities (except Balti-
more City), title to which, or the easement for the use of
which, is vested in a public body or governmental agency
by grant, condemnation or dedication. Special taxing areas,
districts and other political sub-divisions of the State, except
the counties, shall be deemed to be municipalities for the
purpose of this definition.

(E) (Maintenance.) The word "maintenance" means the
process of upkeep and repair, other than reconstruction and
relocation, by which a road, building, equipment and other
property are kept in an ordinarily efficient operating condi-
tion.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That Section 2A of
Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943 Sup-
plement), title "State Roads", as amended by Chapter 953 of
the Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, to read as follows:

2A. All Resident Maintenance Engineers employed by
the State Roads Commission on June 1, 1945, shall con-
tinue in the same classification unless removed for inefficiency
or neglect of duty in accordance with the provisions of
Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland or promoted
in accordance with the provisious of said Article. The State
Roads Commission shall also have power and authority to
appoint, in accordance with the provisions of said Article
64A, such other Resident Maintenance Engineers as it may
in its discretion deem necessary or desirable. The said Resi-