HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     2881

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 3-216(c) and (d), 8-401(d), 8-402, and 8-403

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

Article 56 - Licenses

135.

(a)  "Motor vehicles" [shall mean and include] MEANS all
self-propelled vehicles, including every device in which, upon
which, or by which any person or property is or may be
transported or drawn upon the public highways, and is designed to
be used upon a public highway, except devices moved by human or
muscular power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or
tracks.

(b)  "Motor vehicle fuel" means [and includes gasoline,
casing head or natural gasoline, benzol, benzine, naphtha, gas,
substances or energy regardless of its composition or properties
and any other liquid prepared, advertised, offered for sale, sold
for use as, or used for, the generation of power for the
propulsion of motor vehicles, and diesel oil or other liquids
used in diesel engines or in internal combustion engines for the
propulsion of motor vehicles, including any product obtained by
blending together any one or more products of petroleum, with or
without other products, if the resultant product is capable of
this use. This term includes "gasohol", a fuel which is composed
of a mixture of 5 percent to 20 percent methyl or ethyl alcohol
in gasoline. This term also includes ethyl or methyl alcohol not
mixed with gasoline but sold as motor vehicle fuel] ANY FUEL
CAPABLE OF THE PROPULSION OF MOTOR VEHICLES WHEN USED IN SPARK
IGNITED OR COMPRESSION IGNITED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES.
MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL IS OF 2 TYPES: GASOLINE AND SPECIAL FUEL.

(c)   [The term "dealer"] "DEALER" means any person, firm or
corporation (including the State of Maryland and any political
subdivision thereof), (1) making the first sale in this State of
[any motor vehicle fuel] GASOLINE OR AVIATION FUEL, imported from
beyond the territorial confines of the State after the same shall
have been received in this State; (2) consuming or using in this
State any [motor vehicle fuel] GASOLINE OR AVIATION FUEL so
imported, who shall have purchased the same before it shall have
been received by any other person in this State; (3) producing,
refining, preparing, distilling, manufacturing, blending, or
compounding [motor vehicle fuel] GASOLINE OR AVIATION FUEL in
this State; or (4) purchasing [motor vehicle fuel] GASOLINE OR