HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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vehicles and the reimbursement of owners of privately owned
motor vehicles, and shall be directed: (i) to requiring
effective, efficient, and inexpensive use of all motor
vehicles; and (ii) to the compilation and maintenance of
accurate and detailed cost accounting records covering any
and all uses of all motor vehicles; and (iii) to requiring
that pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the
method used to determine distribution of state-owned motor
vehicles to State employees shall be to assign the allocated
motor vehicles to those employees accumulating the highest
mileage for official use, EXCEPT IN INSTANCES WHERE THE
SECRETARY OF BUDGET AND FISCAL PLANNING DETERMINES, BASED ON
PUBLISHED CRITERIA, THAT THE USE OF A STATE VEHICLE IS
REQUIRED FOR THE EFFICIENT OPERATION OF A STATE PROGRAM
REGARDLESS OF THE MILEAGE TRAVELED.

(3) CONSISTENT WITH THIS SUBSECTION, THE

SECRETARY MAY REASSIGN STATE VEHICLES ON AN

INTERDEPARTMENTAL BASIS IF FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS     ARE
SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED OR DISCONTINUED.

[(3)](4) The Secretary shall report in detail
annually to the General Assembly the text of such rules and
regulations currently in effect and the problems involved in
assuring compliance with the directions and aims of this
section.

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

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 712

(House Bill 1436)

AN ACT concerning

Bad Checks - Time for Prosecution

FOR the purpose of providing for the immediate prosecution
of any person who obtains property or services by
uttering or passing a bad check under certain
circumstances; and making stylistic changes; and
generally relating to uttering a bad check.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 144

Annotated Code of Maryland