MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               835

CHAPTER 284
(Senate Bill 33 0)

AN ACT concerning

Bus Taxation Proration and Reciprocity Agreement

FOR the purpose of repealing the Bus Taxation Proration
and Reciprocity Agreement; and providing for
withdrawal of this State from that agreement.

BY repealing

Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws

Section 3-901 through 3-909, inclusive

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 3-901 through 3-909, inclusive,
of Article 66 1/2 — Vehicle Laws, of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)
be and they are hereby repealed:

Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws

[3-901.

(a)    As used in this part, "article" means an
article of the Bus Taxation Proration and Reciprocity
Agreement, as indicated in the captions of the sections
in this part, unless the context clearly requires a
contrary interpretation.

(b)  The Bus Taxation Proration and Reciprocity
Agreement is hereby enacted into law and entered into
with all jurisdictions legally joining therein in the
form substantially as follows:

3-902.

(a)    It is the purpose of this agreement to set up
a system whereby any contracting state may permit owners
of fleets of buses operating in two or more states to
prorate the registration of the buses in fleets in each
state in which the fleets operate on the basis of the
proportion of miles operated within such state to total
fleet miles, as defined herein.

(b)    It is declared that in making this agreement
the contracting states adhere to the principle that each
state should have the freedom to develop the kind of
highway user tax structure that it determines to be most
appropriate to itself; that the method of taxation of
interstate buses should not be a determining factor in