1638                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 149

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

2.

(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 vanpool OR
LAUNCH SERVICE.

(NN) "LAUNCH SERVICE" MEANS ANY POWER BOAT COMPANY

THAT TRANSPORTS PASSENGERS OR FREIGHT BETWEEN POINTS ON

SHORE AND VESSELS LOCATED IN ANY BODY OF WATER WITHIN THE
STATE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 4, 1982.

CHAPTER 150
(Senate Bill 960)
AN ACT concerning

Maryland Energy Financing Administration