MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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18.

No ferryman shall delay ferrying anyone and their
property across the ferry under his charge; and for each
and every hour he shall delay anyone without lawful
excuse, he shall pay a penalty of two dollars.

19.

The county commissioners, or mayor and city council
of Baltimore, shall provide boats for all ferries
belonging to their respective counties or city; and if
the ferry is between two counties, or between the said
city and a county, then the commissioners of the two
counties, or the mayor and city council and the
commissioners of a county, shall provide a boat or boats
for such ferry.

20.

When a ferry belongs to a county, or to two
counties, or a county and the City of Baltimore, the
county commissioners of the counties interested in such
ferry, or the county commissioners and mayor and city
council, may authorize all residents of such counties and
city so interested to pass over said ferries free of
charge.

21.

The county commissioners or mayor and city council
may make any contract of renting a ferry or keeping the
same by any agent appointed for that purpose, subject to
the ratification of the commissioners or mayor.

22.

All bonds taken under the provisions of this article
shall be delivered to the clerk of the circuit court for
the county in which they shall be given, or the clerk of
the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if given in said
city, to be by him recorded.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved April 13, 1976.

CHAPTER 131
(Senate Bill 537)