3246                                           EXECUTIVE ORDERS

ADMINISTRATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE REVIEW
APPROVES THE ORDER PRIOR TO THEN; OTHERWISE AT 12:01
A.M., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1974:

1.     Except as hereinafter provided, [sales]
PURCHASES of gasoline [by] FROM retail service
stations [to] BY operators of motor vehicles bearing
Maryland registration plates shall only be made on
the following dates:

(a)    On even numbered calendar dates gasoline
shall only be [sold to] PURCHASED BY operators of
vehicles bearing personalized registration plates,
and registration plates with the last digit ending
in an even number. This shall not include ham radio
operator plates. Zero is an even number.

(b)    On odd numbered calendar dates gasoline
shall only be [sold to] PURCHASED BY operators of
vehicles bearing ham radio plates or registration
plates with the last digit ending in an odd number.

(c)    For commercial vehicles, other than
those excluded from this Order, bearing registration
plates with the last digit ending in a letter, the
last number of the registration plate after
disregarding the letter shall determine the calendar
date for which gasoline may be [sold to] PURCHASED
FOR such vehicles.

(d)    For any calendar month in which there
are 31 days, [sales] PURCHASES may be made on the
thirty—first day of the month without regard to the
registration plates of the motor vehicle.

(e)    [Sales]     PURCHASES may be made on
Saturday and Sunday  and legal holidays to the extent
the stations are     open, without regard to the
registration plates  of the motor vehicle.

2.     (a) The Director of the Energy Policy
Office, is hereby authorized to enter into
agreements with other States for reciprocity with
respect to the provisions of this Order. He shall
then declare which jurisdictions have made such
reciprocity agreements. As to such jurisdictions,
and as to the District of Columbia, gasoline [sales]
PURCHASES shall be made [to] FOR vehicles bearing
license plates from those jurisdictions in the same
manner as if the vehicle were registered in
Maryland.

(b) Gasoline [sales to] PURCHASES BY an
operator of a vehicle bearing foreign registration