2008

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 496

BY adding to

Article - Transportation

Section 11-150.1, 11-175.1, and 13-422

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 48A - Insurance Code

242.

(c) All rates shall be made in accordance with the

following principles:

(8) AN INSURER MAY NOT ESTABLISH A RATE

CLASSIFICATION FOR A PASSENGER CAR OR STATION WAGON USED IN
A CAR POOL THAT WOULD RESULT IN A PREMIUM HIGHER THAN THAT
CHARGED FOR A PRIVATE PASSENGER VEHICLE, PROVIDED THAT THE
CAR POOL IS OPERATED ON AN EXPENSE SHARING BASIS AND NOT FOR
PROFIT.

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

2.

(a) The following terms, and such variants thereof as
may be due to requirements of grammar and syntax, when used
in this article, shall be construed, unless the context
clearly otherwise requires, in accordance with the following
definitions:

(d) "Common carrier" means and includes any person,
public authority, federal, State, district or municipal
transportation agency engaged in the public transportation
for hire of persons, property or freight, whether by land,
water, air or any combination of them, and includes, but is
not limited to, air line company, canal company, car
company, express company, freight company, freight line
company, motor vehicle company (including automobile
company, motor bus company and trucking company), power boat
company (including vessel-boat company and steamboat company
and ferry company), railroad company, street railroad
company, sleeping car company, taxicab company, toll bridge
company, towing and lightering company, and transit company.
Any provisions of this article to the contrary
notwithstanding, "common carrier" does not mean and shall
not include any county revenue authority or any toll bridges
or other facilities owned and operated by any county revenue
authority. "Common carrier" does not include any [company
van pool] VANPOOL.