HARRY HUGHES, Governor                             2327

or a local government into compliance with State
standards of uniformity for traffic control devices;
and requiring certain certification.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 8-406

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Transportation

8-406.

(a)  A distribution of highway user revenues may not be
made to any county, municipality, or Baltimore City unless
the local government in its current fiscal year:

(1)  Levies taxes sufficient to collect at leat
LEAST $1 per capita in revenue, as determined by the latest
official census, whether federal or local; and

(2)  Certifies a copy of the levy to the State
Comptroller,

(3)  CERTIFIES THAT REVENUES WILL BE USED IN
COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS.

(b)  If any highway user revenues otherwise
distributable under this subtitle are not distributed by the
close of the fiscal year of the county, municipality, or
Baltimore City because the local government failed to make
the required levy or certification, these highway user
revenues shall revert to the Transportation Trust Fund.

(c)  The county governments and other local authorities
are relieved from the requirements of existing local law for
levying a minimum amount or rate for road maintenance, and
the portions of all public local laws making any such
requirement are suspended.

(D) HIGHWAY USER REVENUES SHALL BE REDUCED BY THAT
AMOUNT DETERMINED NECESSARY BY THE STATE SECRETARY OF
TRANSPORTATION TO BRING THE COUNTY OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTO
COMPLIANCE WITH STATE STANDARDS OF UNIFORMITY.

(D) THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
MAY REDUCE HIGHWAY USER REVENUES TO EACH APPROPRIATE LOCAL
GOVERNING BODY IN THE FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR BY THE SPECIFIC
AMOUNT OF THE COST NECESSARY TO CORRECT INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES
OF NONCOMPLIANCE CONCERNING STATE STANDARDS OF UNIFORMITY

FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.