MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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this Act is an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law

Section 26 (b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 26(b) of Article 78 - Public
Service Commission Law, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1975 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it
is hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law

26.

(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to service
rendered or commodities furnished under the following
circumstances:

(1)    To a public service company's own
officers, employees, agents, surgeons, pensioners,
physicians, attorneys, and their immediate families and
to ministers of religion, and United States, state, or
local governments.

(2)     To charitable and eleemosynary
institutions to assist them in the performance of their
charitable and eleemosynary work.

(3)   To provide relief in cases of general
epidemic, pestilence, flood or other similar calamity.

(4)    In the case of common carrier companies,
also to transportation of personnel of any other common
carrier company which reciprocates for personnel of the
transporting common carrier company; transportation of
inmates of hospitals, indigent, destitute and homeless
persons; transportation of persons exclusively engaged in
charitable and eleemosynary work; transportation of
inmates of national or state soldiers and sailors homes,
including those about to enter and those returning home
after discharges; transportation of railway mail service
employees, post office, customs and immigration
inspectors, newsboys, baggage agents; transportation of
property carried to or from fairs and expositions for
exhibition; transportation of employees of sleeping car
companies, express companies, telegraph companies and
telephone companies doing business along the line of the
carrier company; transportation of persons and property
incident to or connected with contracts for construction,
operation or maintenance of the plant of the transporting
company, to the extent provided in the contract;