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include the area above described and said area shall be subject to
all the rules and regulations of the Commission and all provisions
of law relating to said District, including taxes and other sums or
charges levied by said Commission in other parts of said District.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 8, 1959.

CHAPTER 472
(House Bill 503)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 5(q)
and 22 (c) of Article 62B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition), title "Maryland Port Authority", to add to and clarify
certain powers of the Maryland Port Authority.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5(q) of Article 62B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Maryland Port Authority", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

5(q) Subject to the provisions of Section 22 of this Article and to
the authority of the Federal Government, to provide for the preser-
vation of navigation within its territorial jurisdiction, including the
establishment of lines beyond which no piers, bulkheads, wharves,
pilings, structures, obstructions or extensions of any character may
be built, erected, constructed, made or extended; for the purpose of
fostering and facilitating navigation and for the purpose of pre-
venting injury to persons or property, to prohibit, provide for and
regulate the shipment, storage, handling and transportation within
its territorial jurisdiction of explosives and other materials which
the Authority may determine to be hazardous and the stationing,
anchoring and moving of vessels or other water craft, and to adopt
reasonable rules and regulations in order to prevent any material,
refuse or matter of any kind from being thrown into, deposited in
or placed where the same may fall, or be washed, into any navigable
waters; to make surveys or charts of navigable waters under its
jurisdiction, and to ascertain the depth and course of the channels
of the same; to erect and maintain and to authorize the erection and
maintenance of, and to make such reasonable regulations as it may
deem proper, respecting wharves, bulkheads, piers and piling, and
the keeping of the same in repair, so as to prevent injury to naviga-
tion or health; to regulate the use of wharves, docks, piers, bulkheads,
or pilings, owned or controlled by it, and to lease or rent the same,
and to impose and collect dockage from vessels and water craft lying
at or using the same, and to collect wharfage and other charges upon
goods, wares, merchandise or other articles landed at, shipped from,

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.