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and personal property, buildings and improvements, self-propelled
motor coaches, mass transportation vehicles for the transportation
of passengers, accessory vehicles, materials, supplies, equipment
and other real and personal property necessary, useful and suitable
in the operation of a public transportation system.

(g) "Public transit system" "public transportation system"
"transit system," "transportation system" mean and include public
transportation facilities as herein described, together with all con-
tractual rights, franchises, certificates of convenience and necessity,
operating permits, and operating rights over streets.

(h) "Bonds" means any bonds, interim certificates, notes, deben-
tures or other obligations of the Authority issued pursuant to this
article. SUBTITLE.

(i) "Bond resolution" means any resolution authorizing, ratifying
or affecting any bonds, interim certificates, notes, debentures or
other obligations of the Authority issued pursuant to this article.
SUBTITLE.

474C.

There is created a body corporate and politic known as the Salis-
bury Wicomico Transportation Authority which is a self-determin-
ing, regulatory instrument of and whose jurisdiction is geograph-
ically coterminous with the governing bodies of the City of Salisbury
and Wicomico County.

474D.

This article SUBTITLE is not intended to apply to the following
forms of transportation for hire: (a) transportation by water; (b)
transportation by the federal government or State of Maryland; (c)
transportation by motor vehicles employed solely MAINLY in trans-
porting school children and teachers to and from public or private
schools; (d) transportation performed in the course of operation
over a regular route, the major portion of which is outside the
County, except where a major portion of the passenger traffic begins
and ends within the County; (e) transportation by taxicab, except
when operated over regular routes and on regular schedules; (f)
transportation by chartered coaches; including those operated by
mass transportation companies under the jurisdiction of the Author -
ity; (g) transportation performed by a common carrier by railroad
subject to part I of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, except
when the operation or operations are conducted completely within
the County; the inclusion of (f) above shall be construed to prohibit
the ownership and operation by the Authority of chartered coaches
if and when the Authority owns and operates a public transportation
system pursuant to the provisions hereinafter set forth.

474E.

(a) The Authority consists of seven members, all residents of the
County who shall be appointed jointly by the City and County. Their
COUNTY WHO SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE COUNTY,
AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY AND SUBJECT TO
CONCURRENCE BY THE CITY. THEIR terms shall be for three
years except that in the initial appointment the the City and County