Ch. 580                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved May 14, 1987.

CHAPTER 580

(Senate Bill 656)

AN ACT concerning

Airport Noise Zone Acquisition Fund Assistance Programs -
BWI Airport Noise Zone - Residential Areas

FOR the purpose of establishing and providing for the funding of
an Airport Noise Zone Acquisition Fund; requiring the
Secretary of Transportation or the Secretary's designee to
administer and control the Fund; requiring the Fund to be
used for the purchase and resale of certain properties
located in the airport noise zone; requiring the Fund to be
a revolving fund; requiring that the contract of sale
contain certain notice requirements; establishing the Board
of Airport Zoning Appeals as the panel to review certain
appeals; defining certain terms; and generally relating to
to the establishment and funding of the Airport Noise Zone
Acquisition Fund a program for the voluntary acquisition of
residentially used real property and to assure the resale of
such real property within a certain area of the
Baltimore-Washington International Airport Noise Zone;
establishing a Homeowners Assistance Pilot Program;
requiring a report by the State Aviation Administration to
the General Assembly; requiring certain property owners to
grant an avigation easement to the Administration under
certain circumstances; restricting the variance granting
power of the Board of Airport Zoning Appeals under certain
circumstances; defining certain terms; and generally
relating, to the establishment of noise assistance programs
addressing residential areas within the Baltimore-Washington
International Airport Noise Zone.

BY adding to

Article - Transportation

Section 5-824, 5-825, and 5-826 5-1201 through 5-1205,
inclusive, to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle
12. Airport Noise Assistance Programs"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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