MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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other expenses which may be incident to the construction,
reconstruction, acquisition, improvement, extension,
alteration, modernization, maintenance or repair of
transportation facilities or any transportation
facilities project or the financing thereof.

(f)    The terms "Department," "Authority" and
"Secretary" shall mean, respectively, the Department of
Transportation, the Maryland Transportation Authority, and
the Secretary of Transportation. Unless expressly
provided otherwise, the Secretary shall be responsible
for the exercise of all powers, duties and functions
conferred upon the Department by the provisions of this
article.

(g)    The term "highway facilities" shall include
any one or more or combination of projects involving the
rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads in the State
highway system, both primary and secondary, to meet
present and future needs, and the development and
construction in new locations of new roads necessitated
by traffic demands to become parts of the primary and
secondary system of the State highway system, including
all property rights, materials, facilities and structures
incident thereto, and further including the providing of
State participating funds for federally aided highway
projects.

(h) The term "outstanding and unpaid" shall not
include bonds purchased and held by or for the Department
or Authority in sinking funds, nor matured bonds not
presented for payment, nor bonds called for redemption
but not presented for redemption, if the moneys for such
payment or redemption have been provided.

(i) The term "port facilities" shall include any
one or more or combination of lands, piers, docks,
wharves, warehouses, sheds, transit sheds, elevators,
compressors, refrigeration storage plants, buildings,
structures and other facilities, appurtenances, and
equipment necessary or useful in connection with the
operation of a modern port and every kind of terminal or
storage structure or facility now in use or hereafter
designed for use in the handling, storage, loading or
unloading of freight or passengers at steamship
terminals, and every kind of transportation facility now
in use or hereafter designed for use in connection
therewith. The term "port facilities" shall also
include an international trade center constituting a
facility of commerce and consisting of one or more
buildings, structures, improvements and areas necessary,
convenient or desirable in the opinion of the department
for the centralized accommodation of functions,
activities and services for or incidental to the