MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                           2373

CHAPTER 434
(House Bill 543)

AN ACT concerning

Public Works — Facilities for the Handicapped

FOR the purpose of transferring from the State Highway
Administration to the Department of Public Works of
Baltimore City authority to determine whether ramps
or curb cuts are required at particular
intersections in Baltimore City under standards
prescribed by statute, and generally relating
thereto.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 78A - Public Works

Section 51(g)(3)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 51(g)(3) of Article 78A - Public
Works, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 78A — Public Works
51.

(g) (3) Ramps or curb cuts may not be required
under subsection (2) if the State Highway Administration
determines that AT PARTICULAR INTERSECTIONS OTHER THAN IN
BALTIMORE CITY, AND THE CITY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
DETERMINES THAT AT PARTICULAR INTERSECTIONS IN BALTIMORE
CITY:

(i) The establishment of ramps or curb cuts
would be contrary to public safety;

(ii) The cost of establishing the ramps or
curb cuts would be excessively disproportionate to the
need or the probable use thereof; or

(iii) The sparsity of population, the
existence of other available ways, or other factors
demonstrate an absence of any need for the ramps or curb
cuts.