32                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                         [CH. 15

CHAPTER 15
(House Bill 8)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 205 of
Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "State Roads", sub-title "State Highway Construction Bonds,
Second Issue", relating to construction of State Highways in the
several counties of the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 205 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition) title "State Roads", sub-title "State Highway Con-
struction Bonds, Second Issue", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

205. The Commission shall, from the funds appropriated by this
subheading, construct and/or improve in the several counties of the
State, the total number of miles of road as said road mileage is
totaled in the hereinafter described document, with the following
exception: (1) The said total mileage of construction and/or im-
provement shall be five percent (5%) during said twelve year period,
and within ten percent (10%) during the first four program years,
the second four program years or the third four program years, pro-
vided the total number of miles prescibed in the hereinafter de-
scribed document shall be within the five percent (5%) limitation,
as said total number of miles is set forth for construction and/or im-
provement. Provided, however, that in those counties in which the
percentage of variance is higher than the average percentage of
variance among all the counties, at the end of the first four program
years, the second four program years, or the third four program
years, as the case may be, the Commission shall forthwith revise its
planned construction of road mileage so as promptly to reduce the
percentage of variance in those counties to a point not higher than
the average among all the counties. The document hereinabove re-
ferred to is entitled "Roads Construction and Reconstruction in the
Proposed Twelve Year Program", and dated October 27, 1952, a
copy of which document shall be signed on the front thereof by the
Chairman of the State Roads Commission and shall be filed with each
of the following: The Secretary of the State of Maryland, the Clerk
of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, the Department of Legis-
lative Reference of Maryland, and the secretary of the State Roads
Commission of Maryland. The Commission may, after advising and
conferring with the governing body of any county and the Legislative
Delegation from said county, change the priority of construction of
any project or transfer from one construction period to another any
project referred to in the aforementioned document, and the Com-
mission may also substitute after advising^ and conferring with the
governing body of any county and the Legislative Delegation of said
county any construction project listed in the aforementioned docu-
ment for any construction project or projects included in the docu-

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.