2566                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch 740

Approved May 27, 1980.

CHAPTER 741

(Senate Bill 976)

AN ACT concerning

The Safe Disposal of Designated Hazardous Substances

FOR the purpose of authorizing the use of the Hazardous
Substance Control Fund for the cleanup of spills
wherever they occur, making civil penalties and court
fines payable to the Fund, and making costs of cleanup
from the Fund reimbursable by the person responsible;
requiring a certificate from the Department for
transportation of designated hazardous substances from
a source within the State; establishing requirements
for driver certification, display of manifests and
containers, and authorization of inspection of vehicles
engaged in transportation of hazardous substances;
changing a yearly certification fee to a transporting
vehicle certification fee; requiring generators to
report source, destination, volume, and nature of
substances removed from the site; and establishing a
class of knowing offenses under this section punishable
by a fine not exceeding $25,000 or imprisonment in the
penitentiary for up to 3 years or both, and making each
day upon which such an offense occurs a separate
violation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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Section 8-1413.2(f), (1), and (m)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY adding to

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Section 8-1413.2(f-1) and (p)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

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8-1413.2.