HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2499

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Transportation

4-312.1.

THE MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SHALL ELIMINATE
TOLLS ON THE ENTRANCE AND EXIT RAMPS TO THE JOHN F. KENNEDY
MEMORIAL HIGHWAY IN HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES AND SHALL
TAKE WHATEVER STEPS MAY BE NECESSARY TO OBTAIN THE CONSENT
OF THE MARYLAND NATIONAL BANK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE JOHN F.
KENNEDY MEMORIAL HIGHWAY BONDHOLDERS TO THE ELIMINATION OF
THESE RAMP TOLLS.

THE MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SHALL TAKE
WHATEVER STEPS MAY BE NECESSARY TO OBTAIN A MODIFICATION OF
THE TRUST AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF JULY 1, 1978, BETWEEN THE
AUTHORITY AND MARYLAND NATIONAL BANK, AS TRUSTEE, TO PERMIT
FREE ACCESS TO AND FROM THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
FROM THE RAMPS IN HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES. UPON THE
EXECUTION OF THIS MODIFICATION OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT, AND
AFTER THE COST OF OBTAINING THIS MODIFICATION HAS BEEN
RECOUPED BY THE STATE THROUGH THE ACCUMULATED REVENUES
PRODUCED BY THE RAMP TOLLS ON THE KENNEDY HIGHWAY IN HARFORD
AND CECIL COUNTIES, THE AUTHORITY SHALL ELIMINATE THE RAMP
TOLLS ON THE KENNEDY HIGHWAY IN HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES
AND MAY NOT THEREAFTER CHARGE OR COLLECT TOLLS AT THESE
RAMPS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 646

(House Bill 797)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Kent County Jail Loan of 1981

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt
in the amount of $1,500,000, the proceeds to be used as
a grant to Kent County to assist in the alteration,
enlargement, extension, expansion, improvement,
reconstruction, rehabilitation, renovation, and repair
of the Kent County Jail, subject to the requirement
that Kent County provide at least an equal and matching
amount fund of a certain kind for the same purpose; and
providing generally for the issue and sale of bonds
evidencing the loan.