J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                         59

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
January 1, 1965.

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 37
(Senate Bill 2)

AN ACT to add a new Section 136(g) to Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Motor
Vehicle Fuel Tax", to follow immediately after Section 136(f)
thereof; to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 137(a)
of said Article and subtitle; and to add a new Section 29A to
Article 89B of the said Code, title "State Roads", subtitle "Distribu-
tion and Use of Special Funds", to follow immediately after Section
29 thereof, increasing the license tax with respect to motor vehicles,
which is generally known as the gasoline tax, and providing for
the collection, distribution, and use of this increased tax; to repeal
and re-enact with amendments Section 341(d) of Article 66½ of
said Code (1963 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title
"Offenses and Prosecutions"; to add new Sections 341 (d-1), 341
(d-2), and 341(d-3) to said Article and subtitle (1957 Edition and
1963 Supplement), to follow immediately after Section 341 (d); and
to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 7 of Article 88B of
said Code (1957 Edition), title "State Police", subtitle "In Gen-
eral", placing maximum amounts upon the expenditures from
motor vehicle revenues for the support of the Department of Motor
Vehicles, the Department of Maryland State Police, and the State
Police Retirement System, and providing that bonds authorized
from and after June 1, 1964, to pay the cost of capital improve-
ments for the Department of Maryland State Police and the De-
partment of Motor Vehicles shall be serviced from monies other
than the special funds referred to in said Section 341 (d); to repeal
and re-enact with amendments Section 29(a) of Article 66½ of
said Code (1957 Edition), title "Motor Vehicles", subtitle "Admin-
istration—Registration—Titling", increasing the excise tax for
the issuance of every original certificate of title for certain motor
vehicles and commercial motor vehicles; to add new Sections 211A-
211G, inclusive, to Article 89B of said Code (1957 Edition and
1963 Supplement), title "State Roads", subtitle "Bonds, Notes or
Other Evidence of Indebtedness", to follow immediately after
Section 211 thereof, and to be under the new subheading "State
Highway Construction Bonds, Third Issue", authorizing the issue
of certificates of indebtedness to be known as the State Highway
Construction Bonds, Third Issue, and relating generally to the
terms, conditions, and procedures for the sale and issue of these
bonds and for the uses of the proceeds thereof, and to add new
Sections 211H-211L, inclusive, to said Article of said Code to
follow immediately after Section 211G thereof and to be under
the new subtitle "Expenditure of Commission's Funds and Pro-
gramming and Scheduling of Highway Projects", relating gener-
ally to the finances and expenditures of funds of the State Roads
Commission and to the programming and scheduling of high-
way projects by the State Roads Commission; requiring a study
of the structure, personnel, operational procedures, administra-