WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 808

(a) In this section the following words and phrases have
the meaning indicated.

(1)   ["Discharge" means any spilling, leaking,
pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping.

(2)] "Fund" means the Maryland Oil Disaster
Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund.

[(3) (i) "Oil, petroleum products, and their
by-products" means oil of any kind and in any liquid form
including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil
refuse, oil mixed with other waste, crude oils and every other
nonedible, liquid hydrocarbon regardless of specific gravity.

(ii) "Oil, petroleum products, and their
by-products" does not include any edible oil.]

[(4)] (2) "Transfer" means the offloading of oil in
the State from any commercial vessel, tank truck, tank car,
pipeline, or any other means used for transporting oil.

[(5)] (3) "Barrel" means any measure of petroleum
products or its by-products which consists of 42.0 U.S. gallons
of liquid measure.

(c) (1) A license required under this section shall be
secured from the Department of the Environment subject to the
terms and conditions set forth in this section. The license fee
shall be based on a 0.75 cents per barrel fee for oil transferred
in the State. However, the fee on any barrel shall be imposed
only once, at the point of first transfer in the State.

(2)  The license fee shall be paid monthly to the
Department and on receipt by the Comptroller, credited to the
Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund.
The fee shall be paid no later than the last day of each month or
postmarked 2 days before the end of each month for the number of
barrels transferred the preceding month. At the time of payment,
the licensee shall certify to the Department, on forms as may be
prescribed by the Department, the number of barrels of oil
transferred by the licensee during the fee month. These records
shall be kept confidential by the Department.

(3)  When the BALANCE IN THE FUND FROM THE MONTHLY
LICENSE FEES PAID UNDER THIS SUBSECTION INTO THE Fund equals or
exceeds a maximum limit of $750,000, collection of subsequent
monthly license fees shall be abated until:

(i) The balance in the Fund FROM THE LICENSE
FEES becomes less than or equal to $500,000; or

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