HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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example rather than limitation, and notwithstanding any
other provision or limitation of State or local law:

(i) Provisions for the establishment and
implementation of programs, controls, standards, priorities,
and quotas for the allocation, conservation, and consumption
of energy resources;

(ii) The suspension and modification of
existing standards and requirements affecting or affected by
the use of energy resources, including those relating to air
quality control, the type and composition of various energy
resources, the production and distribution of energy
resources, and the hours and days during which public
buildings and commercial and industrial establishments may
or are required to remain open; and/or

(iii) The establishment and implementation
of regional programs and agreements for the purposes of
coordinating the energy resource programs and actions of the
State with those of the federal government and of other
states and localities.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 12, 1981.

CHAPTER 342

(House Bill 52)

AN ACT concerning

Motor Vehicles - Unsafe Tires - Retail Sale

FOR the purpose of requiring that persons may not sell or
offer for sale, at retail, for use on a highway any
unsafe tire that does not meet certain requirements.

BY adding to

Article - Transportation
Section 22-405.5
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1980 Supplement)