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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 867

of gasoline and other fuels by agricultural

cooperatives deleting the requirement that an
agricultural cooperative association on a certain date
owned or operated a place of business where motor
vehicle fuel is sold in order to be exempted from the
provision that a station be operated by a retail
service station dealer.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses
Section 157E(i)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 56 - Licenses

157E.

(i) For the purpose of subsections (b) and (c) of this
section, a retail service station [may] DOES not include
facilities which [were] ARE both owned and operated [on
January 1, 1979] by an agricultural cooperative association
which a bank for cooperatives certifies is eligible to
borrow from it pursuant to subcharter III of the Federal
Farm Credit Act of 1971 (12 U.S.C. § 2121 et seq.) provided
that:

(1)  The certification is filed with the
Comptroller of the Treasury in connection with the
registration of a retail service station dealer pursuant to
this subtitle; AND

(2)  [The agricultural cooperative association
owned and operated on January 1, 1979, a place or places of
business where motor vehicle fuel is sold and delivered into
the tanks of motor vehicles; and

(3)] The facilities are on premises owned and
operated by the agricultural cooperative association at
which the agricultural cooperative association also carries
on, as a bona fide part of its business, the sale or
furnishing of farm supplies, farm business services, or the
bulk distribution of motor vehicle fuel to farmers on farms.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.