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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 15A - Budget and Fiscal Planning

23A.

(b) These rules and regulations shall apply to all
phases of the purchase, maintenance, and use of STATE-OWNED
MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE REIMBURSEMENT OF OWNERS OF
PRIVATELY-OWNED motor vehicles, and shall be directed, (1)
to acquiring motor vehicles with the lowest possible initial
cost and cost of maintenance, as far as practicable and
feasible; (2) to requiring effective, efficient, and
inexpensive use of all motor vehicles; (3) to the
compilation and maintenance of accurate and detailed cost
accounting records covering the acquisition and any and all
uses of all motor vehicles; and (4) to requiring that
pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section the method used to
determine distribution of State-owned motor vehicles to
State employees shall be to assign the allocated motor
vehicles to those employees accumulating the highest mileage
for official use.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 29, 1978.

CHAPTER 956

(House Bill 1877)

AN ACT concerning

Montgomery County — Alcoholic Beverages

(Liquor Control Department)

MC 270-78

FOR the purpose of providing that the director of the
department of liquor control of Montgomery County serve
at the pleasure of the County Executive and subjecting
his authority to the approval of the County Executive;
correcting obsolete references to a revolving fund,
Board of County Commissioners, Liquor Control Board,
and records keeper and generally relating to the
department of liquor control in Montgomery County; and
clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

Section 159(c), 163(k)(1), 165(e), 166(b), and 167(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)