Ch. 582

1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the authority to borrow
money and issue bonds conferred on the County by this Act shall be deemed to provide
additional, alternative and supplemental authority for borrowing money and shall be
regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred upon the County by other
laws and may not be regarded as. in derogation of any power now existing; and all
previously enacted laws authorizing the County to borrow money are hereby continued to
the extent that the power contained in them is continuing or has not been exercised,
unless any law is expressly repealed by this Act, and the validity of any bonds issued under
previously enacted laws is hereby ratified, confirmed and approved. This Act, being
necessary for the welfare of the inhabitants of the County, shall be liberally construed to
effect its purposes. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act
are hereby repealed to the extent of any inconsistency..

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1993.

Approved May 27, 1993.

CHAPTER 582
(House Bill 1032)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Tow Trucks - Registration

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person from operating, for hire, a tow truck that is
required to be registered in the State but is not registered as a tow truck under a
certain provision of law; establishing a certain penalty; prohibiting a police
department from authorizing a person to use a tow truck for certain purposes
related to the removal and storage of abandoned vehicles unless the tow truck is
registered as a tow truck; requiring a person registering a tow truck to provide
certain information; and generally relating to the registration of tow trucks.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section, 13-920 and 25-203
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1, BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article -Transportation,;

13-920.

(a) (1) In. this section "tow truck" means a vehicle that:

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