1544                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 718

CHAPTER 718
(House Bill 766)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 277
of Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Governor—Executive and Administrative
Departments," subtitle "Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Regulation Compact," revising the method of allocating the
expenses of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commis-
sion AND RELATING TO THE EXPENDITURE OF STATE
FUNDS AND REVISING THE METHOD OF ALLOCATION
OF EXPENDITURES.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 277 of Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1965 Replacement Volume), title "Governor—Executive and Ad-
ministrative Departments," subtitle "Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Regulation Compact," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

277.

The expenses of the Commission shall be borne by the signatories
in the manner hereinafter set forth. The Commission shall submit
to the Governor of Virginia, the Governor of Maryland and the
Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, at such time
or times as shall be requested, a budget of its requirements for
such period as may be required by the laws of the signatories for
presentation to the legislature thereof. [The expenses of the
Commission shall be allocated among the signatories in the pro-
portion that the population of each signatory within the Metropolitan
District bears to the total population of the Metropolitan District.]
Seventy percent of the expenses of the Commission shall he allocated
among the signatories in the proportion that the population of each
signatory within the Metropolitan District hears to the total popu-
lation of the Metropolitan District, and thirty percent of the expenses
of the Commission shall he allocated among the signatories in ac-
cordance with the scheduled miles of regular route service within
the jurisdiction of each signatory by carriers holding certificates
of public convenience and necessity issued by the Commission. In
calculating the miles allocable to each signatory, the data used
(a) shall be that of the latest calendar year prior to the date
the earliest budget is required to be submitted to any of the sig-
natories, and (b) shall include only the scheduled miles in intra-
state or intra-District of Columbia service, except for any carrier
which does not render such intrastate or intra-District of Columbia
service in each jurisdiction in which it operates, in which case the
total scheduled miles of that carrier shall be utilized and allocated
to the signatory in whose jurisdiction such carrier is based. The
allocation shall be made by the Commission and approved by the
governors of the two states and the Board of Commissioners of
the District of Columbia, and shall be based on the latest available
population statistics of the bureau of the census; provided, how-
ever, that if current population data are not available, the Com-
mission may, upon the request of any signatory, employ estimates
of population prepared in a manner approved by the Commission