WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 514

CHAPTER 514

(Senate Bill 736)

AN ACT concerning

Transportation Funding - Local Bus—Service Compliance with Americans With

Disabilities Act - Paratransit Grants

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Transportation to provide annual
grants beginning during for a certain fiscal year to local jurisdictions for paratransit
services to defray the costs of complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act;
specifying certain grants made under certain circumstances; altering a certain
definition; clarifying language defining a certain term; and generally relating to
State grants for local paratransit services.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

BY adding to

Article - Transportation

Section 10-207 2-103.5

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

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

Article - Transportation

10-207.

(a) (1) In this section, the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2) "Eligible local bus service":

(i) Means the number of annual platform miles and annual platform
hours of fixed route, scheduled local bus service, that previously replaced comparable
service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, plus the
number of annual platform miles and annual platform hours of any now fixed route,
scheduled local bus service added after June 30, 1989; and

(ii) Is limited to service operated by or on behalf of and in
Montgomery County or Prince George's County.

(3) "Costs", EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS SECTION,

means:

(i) Operating costs of eligible local bus service, plus operating costs

under § 10-205 of this subtitle; and

(ii) An allowance for the replacement of buses used in eligible local
service, which shall equal the cost of such buses divided by their useful life.

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