HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  1945

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 695
(Senate Bill 375)
AN ACT concerning

Emergency Rescue Boats — Registration Fee

FOR the purpose of exempting rescue boats that belong to a

fire department or rescue squad from all fees.

FOR the purpose of requiring rescue boats that belong to

fire companies or rescue squads to apply for a

registration renewal every 3 years from a certain date.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Natural Resources

Section 8-712(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

8-712.

(c) (1) The annual fee for each certificate of boat
number is $5 for the calendar year in which the certificate
is issued. However, any vessel 16 feet in length, or less,
equipped with a 7 1/2 horsepower motor, or less, is exempt
from this fee. The fee to replace a lost, destroyed, or
corrected certificate is $2. The Department shall record any
transaction or transfer of numbered boats. It may record any
amount of money owing on a vessel required to be numbered at
the time of sale. The Department may not effect a transfer
of ownership until the amount of money owed as shown on the
records of the Department is fully paid or recorded on the
new title. Any vessel that is required to be numbered by §
8-712 that is exempt prior to January 1, 1974, shall be
exempt from payment of this title tax.

(2) EMERGENCY RESCUE BOATS THAT BELONG TO FIRE
DEPARTMENTS OR RESCUE SQUADS IN MARYLAND SHALL BE EXEMPT
FROM ALL FEES APPLY FOR A REGISTRATION RENEWAL EVERY 3 YEARS

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DATE ON WHICH THE REGISTRATION__IN

EFFECT ON JULY 1, 1979 WAS OBTAINED.