J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      821

ment Volume), title "Maryland Port Authority", to provide for
an international trade center to be included in, and a part of, the
term "port facility" as denned in this Article and to designate its
function and purpose.

Whereas, The General Assembly hereby finds and determines:

(1)  that the servicing functions and activities connected with the
water-borne commerce and trade of the ports and harbors of the
State of Maryland, including customs clearance, shipping negotia-
tions, cargo routing, freight forwarding, financing, insurance agree-
ments and other similar transactions which are presently performed
in various scattered locations, should be centralized to provide more
efficient and economical facilities for the exchange and buying, sell-
ing and transportation of commodities and other property in inter-
national and domestic water-borne trade and commerce and for
making arrangements for and handling passenger service by water,
and matters incidental thereto; and

(2)  that unification, at a single, centrally located site, of a facility
of commerce accommodating the said functions and activities de-
scribed in paragraph (1) above and the appropriate governmental,
administrative and other services connected with or incidental to
the transportation of persons and property by water and the promo-
tion and protection of port commerce, and providing a central locale
for exchanging and otherwise promoting the exchange and buying
and selling of commodities and property in water-borne trade and
commerce, will materially assist in preserving for the State of Mary-
land and the residents of all parts of the State the material and
other benefits of prosperous port communities; and

(3)   that the undertaking of the aforesaid unified facility of com-
merce by Maryland Port Authority has the single object of preserv-
ing, and is part of a unified plan to aid in the preservation of, the
economic well-being of the State of Maryland and its residents and
is found and determined to be in the public interest.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 4 (g) of Article 62B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Replacement Volume), title "Maryland Port Authority",
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

4.

(g) The term "port facility" shall mean and shall include, with-
out intending thereby to limit the generality of such term, any one
or more of the following or any combination thereof: Lands, piers,
docks, wharves, warehouses, sheds, transit sheds, elevators, com-
pressors, refrigeration storage plants, buildings, structures and other
facilities, appurtenances and equipment necessary or useful in con-
nection with the operation of a modern port and every kind of
terminal or storage structure or facility now in use or hereafter
designed for use in the handling, storage, loading or unloading of
freight or passengers at steamship terminals, and every kind of
transportation facility now in use or hereafter designed for use in
connection therewith.