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IN THE 1965 FISCAL YEAR FROM THE GASOLINE TAX FUND
AND THE MOTOR VEHICLE REVENUE FUND ALLOCATED
TO SUCH CITY TO SUPPLEMENT THE COST OF OPERATING
THE TRAFFIC DIVISION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF
SUCH CITY, NOW, THEREFORE,

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in addition to the uses authorized by Section 33 of Article 89B
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), the City of
Baltimore in the 1965 fiscal year of the State of Maryland is hereby
authorized and empowered to use A SUM NOT TO EXCEED FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($500,000) OF the monies dis-
tributed to it from the Gasoline Tax Fund and the Motor Vehicle
Revenue Fund for purposes of the operation of the Traffic Division
of the Police Department of Baltimore City.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members
elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 13, 1964.

CHAPTER 16
(Senate Bill 120)

AN ACT to add new Sections 395 to 405, inclusive, to Article 66½
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1963 Supplement), title
"Motor Vehicles", to follow immediately after Section 394 thereof
and to be under the new sub-title "Bus Taxation Proration and
Reciprocity Agreement", providing for the entry of the State of
Maryland into the Bus Taxation Proration and Reciprocity Agree-
ment with other states that are parties thereto and setting up
a system whereby any contracting state may permit owners of
fleets of buses operating in two or more states to prorate the
registration of the buses in such fleets in each state in which the
fleets operate on the basis of the proportion of miles operated
within such state to total fleet miles; to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Section 184 (a) of Article 56 of the said Code (1963
Supplement), title "Licenses", sub-title "Public Passenger and
Freight Motor Vehicles", to provide for charging the excise tax
for the issuance of every original certificate of title to vehicles
registered under this section; to add new Sections 465 to 477,
inclusive, to Article 81 of the said Code (1963 Supplement), title
"Revenue and Taxes", to follow immediately after Section 464
thereof and to be under the new sub-title "Compact on Taxation
of Motor Fuels Consumed by Interstate Buses", providing for the
entry of the State of Maryland into the Compact on Taxation of
Motor Fuels Consumed by Interstate Buses, providing for the
terms and conditions of the Compact permitting interstate buses
to pay gasoline taxes to the Compact states commensurate with