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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 439

(House Bill 699)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Farm Equipment - Silvacultural
Silvicultural Operations

FOR the purpose of providing that the definition of "farm
equipment" under the motor vehicle laws of the State shall

include certain vehicles designed and adapted for

silvacultural silvicultural operations silvicultural

equipment weighing a certain amount or less gross weight.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 11-120

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

11-120.

(A)   "Farm equipment" means a vehicle that:

(1)   Is designed and adapted only for agricultural,
horticultural, SILVACULTURAL SILVICULTURAL , or livestock
raising operations;

(2)   Is designed and adapted only for lifting or
carrying a vehicle described in item (1) of this section; or

(3)   Is designed and adapted for splitting firewood.

(B) FARM EQUIPMENT ALSO INCLUDES SILVICULTURAL EQUIPMENT
WEIGHING 62,000 POUNDS OR LESS GROSS WEIGHT.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.