1520                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                    Ch. 397

CHAPTER 397

(Senate Bill 1027)

AN ACT concerning

Mass Transit Administration - Fare Recovery

Ratio - Transit Services

FOR the purpose of requiring the Mass Transit Administration to

recover from certain revenues at least a specific percentage
of the total operating costs for mass transit bus and rail
services under the Administration's jurisdiction; requiring
the Administration to obtain a certain fare recovery ratio
in a certain manner; and generally relating to the Mass
Transit Administration and a fare recovery ratio.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation
Section 7-208(a)(2)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

7-208.

(a) (2) (i) For fiscal year [1983] 1987 YEARS 1988 THROUGH

1992 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Administration shall
[establish in the Baltimore region bus transit fares at rates

projected to] recover from [such] fares and other operating

revenues at least 50 percent of the total operating costs for the

mass transit bus AND RAIL services under its jurisdiction. It is

the intent of the General Assembly that the provisions of this

paragraph shall apply on a system wide basis and not on an

individual [bus] transit line basis.

(ii) [The provisions of this paragraph do not
apply to subway transit services until the General Assembly
establishes a policy for transit fares applicable to the combined
bus and subway system in the Baltimore region.

(iii) The Secretary of Transportation shall
submit a report to the General Assembly not later than January 1,
1984 with recommendations for the transit fare policy for the
combined bus and subway system in the Baltimore region.]

THE ADMINISTRATION SHALL OBTAIN THE FARE RECOVERY RATIO
THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF REASONABLE FARES IN THE BALTIMORE
REGION AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COST CONTAINMENT MEASURES AS