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LAWS OF MARYLAND
CHAPTER 852
(Senate Bill 199)

[Ch. 852

AN ACT concerning

Gasoline Products Marketing Act —
Marketing Agreements

FOR the purpose of including certain oral agreements
within the application of the Maryland Gasoline
Products Marketing Act, establishing certain
penalties for termination or cancellation of
agreements by distributors under certain
circumstances, and prohibiting the unreasonable
refusal by distributors to renew a marketing
agreement and generally relating to marketing
agreements[[.]] and providing that the Gasoline
Products Marketing Act shall constitute a statement
of the public policy of this State.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 23 — Corporations

Section 167C, 167E and 167F

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

By adding to

Article 23 — Corporations

Section 167J

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 167C, 167E and 167F of Article 23
— Corporations, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1973
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 23 — Corporations

167C.

As used in this subheading, the term

(1) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the
sale, consignment, or distribution of gasoline products
through retail outlets which it owns or leases, and who
maintains [a] AN ORAL OR written contractual relationship
with a dealer for the sale of the products, and shall