HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Maryland Constitution, I have today vetoed House Bill 897.

This measure was prompted by the growing and legitimate
concern of Maryland communities regarding the safety of
railroad tracks. According to its sponsor and the testimony
offered at an executive hearing, the bill's sole purpose was
to enable the people of Maryland to have access to track
safety reports and to learn what steps are being taken to
remedy the defects which such reports reveal.

Unfortunately, the bill as enacted appears to go beyond
its legitimate purpose and inadvertently to require a
certification which no railroad could ever make in good
faith, viz., that all of its tracks meet the standards of
the Federal Railroad Administration at any given point.

Fortunately, Senate Bill 730, which I have signed
today, vests in the Commissioner of Labor and Industry ample
authority to require by rule and regulation that which House
Bill 897 was intended to require.

For this reason, I have decided to veto House Bill 897.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

House Bill No. 944
AN ACT concerning

Maryland Industrial Development
Financing Authority (MIDFA) - Corrective

FOR the purpose of correcting the effect of a defect in the
title of Chapter 496 of the Laws of Maryland of 1979
so that an industrial project applicant has the option
of becoming the mortgagor in any MIDFA loan where a
municipality, as well as a county, is the borrower, and
so that a municipality, as well as a county, is
authorized to lend the proceeds of any such loan to the
industrial project applicant; declaring this Act to be
an emergency measure; and making this Act void and of
no effect upon the enactment of certain legislation.

                                                             May 27, 1980

Honorable Benjamin L. Cardin

Speaker of the House of Delegates

State House