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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 595

CHAPTER 595

(Senate Bill 1090)

AN ACT concerning

Waterways Improvement Fund - Marine Facilities

FOR the purpose of providing that the Waterways Improvement
Fund may be used to provide matching grants to local
governments for the constructing construction of marine
facilities for marine firefighting, police marine
police, or medical services; and making technical
corrections.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources
Section 8-707 and 8-708(e)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Natural Resources

8-707.

There is a Waterways Improvement Fund for the purposes
specified in this subtitle. Except as provided in § 8-709,
any money received into the Waterways Improvement Fund shall
be used solely for the following projects[.]:

(1)  Marking channels and harbors, and
establishing aids to navigation in cooperation with and as
an extension of operations of the United States Coast Guard;

(2)  Clearing debris, aquatic vegetation, and
obstruction from waters of the State;

(3)  Dredging channels and harbors and
construction of jetties and breakwaters in cooperation with
and as an extension of operations of the United States Army
Corps of Engineers; [and]

(4)  Constructing marine facilities beneficial to
the boating public[; and] , OR FOR MARINE FIREFIGHTING,
POLICE, OR MEDICAL SERVICES;

(5)  Improvement, reconstruction, or removal of
bridges, drawbridges, or similar structures over or across
waters, if those structures delay, impede, or obstruct the
boating public. With the approval of the Board of Public