Ch. 541

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(2)  Every kind of terminal or storage structure or
facility useful or designed for use in handling, storing,
loading, or unloading freight or passengers at marine terminals;

(3)  Every kind of transportation facility useful or
designed for use in connection with any of these; and

(4)  An international trade center constituting a
facility of commerce and consisting of one or more buildings,
structures, improvements, and areas that the Department considers
necessary, convenient, or desirable for the centralized
accommodation of functions, activities, and services for or
incidental to the transportation of persons by water, the
exchange, buying, selling, and transportation of commodities and
other property in international and national waterborne trade and
commerce, the promotion and protection of this trade and
commerce, and governmental services related to them and other
federal, state, and municipal agencies and services, including
foreign trade zones, offices, marketing and exhibition
facilities, terminal and transportation facilities, customhouses,
custom stores, inspection and appraisal facilities, parking
areas, commodity and security exchanges, and, in the case of
buildings, structures, improvements, and areas in which such
accommodation is afforded, all the buildings, structures,
improvements, and areas, although other parts of the buildings,
structures, improvements, and areas might not be devoted to
purposes of the international trade center other than the
production of incidental revenue available for the expenses and
financial obligations of the Department in connection with the
international trade center and although other parts of the
buildings, structures, improvements, and areas might be rented or
leased for the use or occupancy of departments, bureaus, units,
or agencies of the United States, this State, or any political
subdivision of this State.

[(e)] (F) "Project" means any port facility acquired,
constructed, controlled, or operated by the Administration,
including all property acquired for the construction or operation
of the port facility.

Subtitle 2. MARYLAND PORT COMMISSION AND
Maryland Port Administration

[6-201.

There is a Maryland Port Administration in the Department.]
6-201.

(A) THERE IS A MARYLAND PORT COMMISSION.

(b) THE DUTY OF THE COMMISSION SHALL BE TO SET POLICY AND
ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE

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