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of Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Governor—Executive and Administrative De-
partments," subtitle "The Department of Transportation"; to
repeal Section 7 of Chapter 102 of the Acts of 1970; to increase the
license tax with respect to motor vehicle fuels, generally known as
the gasoline tax, TO PROVIDE THAT THE INCREASED TAX
SHALL BE PAID ON FUEL STORED PRIOR TO THE EF-
FECTIVE DATE OF THE TAX INCREASE, to revise the
formula for the remittance by the Comptroller of said tax; to
define or re-define certain terms relating to State roads or high-
ways; to prescribe certain powers and duties of the State High-
way Administration of the Department of Transportation; to
revise the definition of highway user revenues; to provide for
the primary and secondary highway construction and reconstruc-
tion programs; to provide that the projects for such programs
be taken from the Twenty-Year Needs Study; to raise the limit
on the amount of CERTAIN outstanding and unpaid consoli-
dated transportation bonds; to provide for certain grants by the
Department of Transportation to the Washington Suburban Transit
District under certain conditions; to provide for contracts and
grants by the Secretary of Transportation for transportation re-
lated purposes; to provide that the successor to the Metropolitan
Transit Authority and the Washington Suburban Transit Dis-
trict need not repay certain funds to the annuity bond fund; to
delete certain obsolete language from and to clarify language in
the provisions of the law relating to the Department of Transporta-
tion; and relating generally to the financing of an TAXATION
FOR, FINANCING OF, AND OTHER provisions for the system
of Transportation in Maryland.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 136(h) be and it is hereby added to Article 56 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement Volume and
1971 Supplement), title "Licenses," subtitle "Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax,"
to follow immediately after Section 136(g) thereof, and that Sec-
tion 137(a) of the same Article, title and subtitle, be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, all to read as follows:

136.

(h) INCREASE IN TAX ON JULY 1, 1972.—On and after the
first day of July, 1972, the license to in respect to motor vehicles,
prescribed by this subtitle, shall be increased two cents (2¢) per
gallon. The tax imposed by this subsection is not a part of the single
license tax referred to in subsection (f) of this section. ANY PER-
SON, FIRM OR CORPORATION POSSESSING TAX PAID
MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL TO BE SOLD AFTER JUNE 30, 1972,
SHALL COMPILE AS OF JUNE 30, 1972, AN INVENTORY OF
SAID FUEL AND SHALL, WITH RESPECT TO SAID FUEL,
REMIT TO THE COMPTROLLER, ON OR BEFORE AUGUST
1, 1972, WITH THE FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE COMP-
TROLLER, THE ADDITIONAL TAX IMPOSED BY THIS SEC-
TION.

137.

(a) WHEN TAX PAYABLE, ALLOWANCE, DISPOSITION
OF PROCEEDS.—The gasoline tax, imposed by this subtitle in re-