WM. PKESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1361

dent Maintenance Engineers shall be paid the same salary
or compensation as is paid to Junior Assistant Highway
Engineers, Grade I, as prescribed by the regulations of the
State Employees' Standard Salary Board, and each year of
service as a Resident Maintenance Engineer, or in a position
doing similar work, shall be considered as a year of service
as a Junior Assistant Highway Engineer, Grade I. All
vacancies in the position of Resident Maintenance Engineer
shall be filled by the State Roads Commission, in accordance
with the provisions of Article 64A.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That Sections 9 to
18, both inclusive, of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "State Roads", that is to say, Sections 10,
11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of said Article of said Code
(1939 Edition) Section 9 of said Article of said Code (1943
Supplement), as amended by Chapters 841 and 1032 of the
Acts of 1945, Sections 9A, 12, 14A and 16A of said Article
of said Code (1943 Supplement), and Section 14B of said
Article as enacted by Chapter 1000 of the Acts of 1945, be
and they are hereby repealed, and that ten new sections
be and they are hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to be known
as Sections 9 to 18, both inclusive, of said Article, under
a sub-title "Distribution and Use of Special Funds", to fol-
low immediately after Section 8A of said Article, and to read
as follows:

9. As used in this sub-title the following words and terms
shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall
indicate another or different meaning or intent.

(A) (Two-Lane Arterial Highway.) The term "two-lane
arterial highway" shall mean a thoroughfare of one traffic
lane in each direction without physical separation of op-
posing traffic lanes, and which by the application of proper
design standards such as adequate lane width, adequate
shoulders, proper sight distances and other such features
of design can safely and expeditiously serve traffic volumes
up to 3,000 vehicles per day, and shall embrace all bridges,
tunnels, overpasses, underpasses, interchanges, entrance
plazas, approaches and other structures which the Commis-
sion may deem necessary to the operation of the two-lane
arterial highway, together with all property, rights, ease-
ments, franchises and interests acquired by the Commission
for the construction and operation thereof.

(B) (Controlled Access Arterial Highway.) The term
"controlled access arterial highway" shall mean a major
thoroughfare of two or more traffic lanes in each direction