MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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(c—1) The motor vehicle registration ratios
required by subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall
be determined by the [State Roads Commission]
ADMINISTRATION for each license year beginning with the
license year immediately preceding July 1, 1968 in the
following manner:

(1)    The total number of motor vehicle registration
licenses issued by the [Department of Motor Vehicles]
MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION (exclusive of all dealer
licenses, temporary 30—day tags, duplicate tags, and
amateur radio tags) shall be determined for each license
year and for each county and Baltimore City according to
the addresses of the owners of such vehicles.

(2)     The ratio of motor vehicle registration
licenses shall be determined for each county and shall be
the ratio that the total number of motor vehicle
registrations having owners addresses within such county
bears to the total motor vehicle registrations within all
counties.

(3)    The ratio of motor vehicle registration
licenses for each municipality or special taxing area
shall be determined for such municipality or special
taxing area and shall be the ratio that the total number
of motor vehicle registrations within such municipality
or special taxing area bears to the total motor vehicle
registrations within such county.

To enable the [Commission] ADMINISTRATION to make
such computations, the [Department of Motor Vehicles]
MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION and the local governing
bodies of each county shall furnish the [Commission]
ADMINISTRATION such data as it may require.

(d) The State Treasurer, upon warrants of the
Comptroller, shall pay over each county's share to or on
the order of the proper officials thereof as designated
by local law, or, in the absence of such designation, to
the county commissioners, at monthly intervals or at such
other appropriate times as may be reasonably requested,
or, in the case of a county whose road construction,
reconstruction or maintenance is performed by the [State
Roads Commission] ADMINISTRATION, the State Treasurer,
[[WITH THE COUNTY'S CONCURRENCE,]] shall credit [[ALL OR
PART]] [[OF] the county's share to the account of the
[State Roads Commission] ADMINISTRATION to be expended
upon warrants of the Comptroller. Honeys so paid or
credited shall be used and expended by such county
officials or by the [State Roads Commission]
ADMINISTRATION, as the case may be, as follows:

(1) So much thereof as may be necessary shall be