HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     3607

BY repealing and reenacting,. with amendments,

Article 81 - Revenue and Taxes

Section 131

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

26.

(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to service rendered or
commodities furnished under the following circumstances:

(1)  To a public service company's own officers,
employees, pensioners, and their immediate families, and United
States, State, or local governments.

(2)  To provide relief in cases of general epidemic,
pestilence, flood or other similar calamity.

(3)  In the case of common carrier companies, also to
transportation of personnel of any other common carrier company
which reciprocates for personnel of the transporting common
carrier company; transportation of inmates of hospitals,
indigent, destitute and homeless persons; transportation of
persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work;
transportation of inmates of national or state soldiers and
sailors homes, including those about to enter and those returning
home after discharges; transportation of railway mail service
employees, post office, customs and immigration inspectors,
newsboys, baggage agents; transportation of property carried to
or from fairs and expositions for exhibition; transportation of
employees of sleeping car companies, express companies, telegraph
companies and telephone companies doing business along the line
of the carrier company; transportation of persons and property
incident to or connected with contracts for construction,
operation or maintenance of the plant of the transporting
company, to the extent provided in the contract; transportation
of persons injured in accidents or wrecks, and physicians and
nurses attending such persons, and other necessary caretakers in
transit; transportation of children under five years of age free
of charge, and children under twelve years of age for half fare;
any transportation free, or at reduced rates otherwise authorized
by law; issuance of mileage, excursion, school commutation or
commutation passenger tickets, or joint interchangeable mileage
tickets, with special provisions as to the amount of free baggage
that may be carried under mileage tickets of one hundred miles or
more.