HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 250

(Senate Bill 119)

AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission - Intrastate Motor
Carrier Permits

FOR the purpose of changing the requirement that certain
intrastate motor carriers of property or freight obtain
a permit from the Public Service Commission.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 32(a-l)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(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

32.

(a-1) Except as provided under the provisions of
subsection (b) of this section, a permit shall be required
of the following:

(1)  Any passenger motor vehicle used in any
transportation of passengers for hire; and

(2)  Any motor vehicle FOR HIRE used in the
intrastate transportation of property or freight FOR HIRE on
regular schedules and between fixed termini, as these terms
are defined in Title 11 of the Transportation Article,
including property or freight carried by corporations,
groups, and associations engaged in the transportation of
their stockholders, shareholders or members, or their
property or freight, whether on the cooperative plan or
otherwise. The permit may prescribe the route and schedule
of operation.

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