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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 781

(B) IF ANY FACILITY IS TERMINATED FROM THE PROGRAM
VOLUNTARILY, INVOLUNTARILY, OR THROUGH THE SALE OR LEASE OF

ITS FACILITIES, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REIMBURSE THE

PARTICIPATING PROVIDER BY AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO 1 PERCENT OF
THE DEPRECIATION TAKEN BY THE PARTICIPATING PROVIDER FOR
EACH MONTH THE PARTICIPATING PROVIDER HAS PARTICIPATED IN
THE PROGRAM.

(C) A PARTICIPATING PROVIDER IS NOT REQUIRED TO REPAY
THE STATE FOR THE DEPRECIATION WHICH THE PARTICIPATING
PROVIDER HAS BEEN REIMBURSED AS AN ALLOWABLE EXPENSE UNDER
THIS SECTION.

(B) A PARTICIPATING PROVIDER SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO
REPAY THE STATE FOR ANY DEPRECIATION FOR WHICH THE PROVIDER
HAS BEEN REIMBURSED AS AN ALLOWABLE EXPENSE AND WHICH COULD
OTHERWISE BE RECAPTURED BY THE STATE UPON A SALE, SCRAPPING,
TRADE-IN, DONATION, EXCHANGE, DEMOLITION, OR ABANDONMENT OF
A FACILITY, OR INVOLUNTARY CONVERSION OF A FACILITY SUCH AS
CONDEMNATION, FIRE, THEFT, OR OTHER CASUALTY.

(C)  THIS SECTION HAS NO EFFECT IF ITS OPERATION WOULD
CAUSE THIS STATE TO LOSE ANY FEDERAL FUNDS.

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

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 782

(Senate Bill 42)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Length of Vehicles - Poultry Trucks

FOR the purpose of permitting use of a truck tractor and
semitrailer combination with a certain combined length
if the vehicle is hauling, or is traveling empty or
with poultry cages to or from hauling, live poultry in
certain counties.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation
Section 24-104.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1981 Supplement)