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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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and thereafter shall be credited on the books of the State
Comptroller and expended, upon approval by the Board of
Public Works, for the following public purposes, including
any applicable architects' and engineers' fees: for the
acquisition, improvement, and rehabilitation of property and
property rights of any kind in rail facilities within and
without the State of Maryland as follows: Townsend,
Delaware to Centreville; Massey to Chestertown; Clayton,
Delaware to Easton; Queen Anne's to Denton; Seaford,
Delaware to Cambridge; Preston to Hurlock; Salisbury to
Hebron; King's Creek to Crisfield; and Littlestown,
Pennsylvania to Frederick. These property rights may be
acquired on the terms and conditions recommended by the
Secretary of Transportation and the Board of Public Works.
(4) There is hereby levied and imposed an annual State
tax on all assessable property in the State in rate and
amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on
the bonds as and when due and until paid in full, such
principal to be discharged within fifteen years of the date
of issue of the bonds.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1981.
Approved May 19, 1981.
CHAPTER 606
(House Bill 201)
AN ACT concerning
Commuter Rail Subsidies Services
FOR the purpose of establishing a revenue account in the
Transportation Trust Fund; providing for disbursement
of the revenue account in the form of certain subsidies
to certain commuter rail lines; prescribing the rate of
the subsidies providing that the Department of
Transportation shall continue to operate certain
commuter rail lines at certain levels of service; and
providing that the State Department of Transportation
may not discontinue the subsidies such service without
certain approval by the General Assembly and requiring
the Department of Transportation to recover a certain
percentage of commuter rail operating costs from fares
and operating revenues.
BY adding to
Article - Transportation
Section 3-217
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