Ch. 331                                     1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - Transportation

8-406.

(a) A distribution of highway user revenues may not be made to any county,
municipality, or Baltimore City unless the local government in its current fiscal year[:

(1)     Levies taxes sufficient to collect at least $1 per capita in revenue, as
determined by the latest official census, whether federal or local;

(2)     Certifies a copy of the levy to the State Comptroller; and

(3)     Certifies] CERTIFIES TO THE ADMINISTRATION that revenues will be
used in compliance with all applicable laws.

'(b) If any highway user revenues otherwise distributable under this subtitle are
not' distributed by the close of the fiscal year of the county, municipality, or Baltimore
City because the local government failed to make the required [levy or] certification,
these highway user revenues shall revert to the Transportation Trust Fund.

(c)     The county governments and other local authorities are relieved from the
requirements of existing local law for levying a minimum amount or rate for road
maintenance, and the portions of all public local laws making any such requirement are
suspended.

(d)     The Secretary of the Department of Transportation may reduce highway user
revenues to each appropriate local governing body in the following fiscal year by the
specific amount of the cost necessary to correct individual instances of noncompliance
concerning State standards of uniformity for traffic control devices.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1993.

Approved May 11, 1993.

CHAPTER 331
(House Bill 737)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Salvage Certificates - Insurance Companies

FOR the purpose of requiring an insurance company to apply to the Motor Vehicle
Administration for a salvage certificate for each vehicle titled in the State that is
acquired by the insurance company as a result of a claim settlement arising out of an
accident that occurred in the State; and generally relating to applications for salvage
certificates.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation

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