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VETOES

FOR the purpose of altering the municipal share of certain
highway user revenues.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation
Section 8-405(b)
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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Transportation

8-405.

(b) During the fiscal year beginning after a request
is made, the Administration shall allocate to the
municipality, from the gross share of highway user revenues
allocated under § 8-404 of this subtitle to the county
within which the municipality is located, its net share of
highway user revenues, to be determined by adding:

(1)  The amount that results from applying to one
half of the available revenues the ratio that, as of
December 1 of the preceding calendar year, the total mileage
of county roads in the municipality bears to the total
mileage of county roads in the county; and

(2)  The amount that results from applying to one
half of the available revenues the ratio that, as of June 30
of the preceding calendar year, the total number of motor
vehicles registered to owners having addresses in the
municipality bears to the total number of motor vehicles
registered to owners having addresses in the county [and
allocating 87.5 percent of the resulting amount to the
municipality].

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

May 19, 1981
The Honorable James Clark, Jr.
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. President:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the
Maryland Constitution, today I have vetoed Senate Bill 520.