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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 803

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 78 - Public Service Commission Law

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(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to service rendered
or commodities furnished under the following circumstances:

(1)  To a public service company's own officers,
employees, [agents, surgeons,] pensioners, [physicians,
attorneys,] and their immediate families [and to ministers
of religion], and United States, State, or local
governments.

(2)  [To charitable and eleemosynary institutions
to assist them in the performance of their charitable and
eleemosynary work.

(3)] To provide relief in cases of general
epidemic, pestilence, flood or other similar calamity.

[(4)] (3) In the case of common carrier
companies, also to transportation of personnel of any other
common carrier company which reciprocates for personnel of
the transporting common carrier company; transportation of
inmates of hospitals, indigent, destitute and homeless
persons; transportation of persons exclusively engaged in
charitable and eleemosynary work; transportation of inmates
of national or state soldiers and sailors homes, including
those about to enter and those returning home after
discharges; transportation of railway mail service
employees, post office, customs and immigration inspectors,
newsboys, baggage agents; transportation of property carried
to or from fairs and expositions for exhibition;
transportation of employees of sleeping car companies,
express companies, telegraph companies and telephone
companies doing business along the line of the carrier
company; transportation of persons and property incident to
or connected with contracts for construction, operation or
maintenance of the plant of the transporting company, to the
extent provided in the contract; transportation of persons
injured in accidents or wrecks, and physicians and nurses
attending such persons, and other necessary caretakers in
transit; transportation of children under five years of age
free of charge, and children under twelve years of age for
half fare; any transportation free, or at reduced rates
otherwise authorized by law; issuance of mileage, excursion,
school commutation or commutation passenger tickets, or
joint interchangeable mileage tickets, with special
provisions as to the amount of free baggage that may be
carried under mileage tickets of one hundred miles or more.

[(5)] (4) To free steamboat excursion
transportation during May, June, July and August of every