Ch. 191

1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

[(y)](X) "Telegraph lines" means the plant owned by any telegraph company,
and includes the company's appliances, buildings, crossbars, easements, instruments,
machines, poles, real estate and wires.

[(z)] (Y) "Telephone company" includes any public service company which owns
telephone lines for the reception, transmission or communication of messages by
telephone or teletype, or which lets, licenses, or sells telephonic or teletype
communication. It does not include a cellular telephone company.

[ (aa)] (Z) "Telephone lines" means the plant owned by a telephone company and
includes the company's appliances, buildings, crossbars, easements, instruments,
machines, poles, real estate, receivers, transmitters and wires.

[(bb)](AA) "Toll bridge" means any bridge heretofore or hereafter operated by
any person authorized to charge and collect toll from any or all traffic using the bridge.

[(cc) "Transportation of property or freight" means any transporting of property or
freight, except the transportation of fluid milk, and includes any service in connection
with delivery, elevation, handling, icing, receiving, refrigeration, storage, transfer in
transit, or ventilation of the property or freight transported, but shall not include any
service or handling in connection with the transportation of fluid milk.]

[(dd)](BB) "Violating any of the provisions of this article" includes failing,
neglecting or refusing to comply with any provision of this article, or with any effective
and outstanding action, direction, ruling, order, rule, regulation, or decision of the
Commission.

[(ee)] (CC) "Water company" includes any public service company which owns any
water plant, and which sells, distributes or supplies water for gain.

[(ff)] (DD) "Water plant" means the plant owned by a water company and includes
buildings, canals, dams, easements, real estate, waterfalls, water power station or water
supply.

[(gg)"Contract carriers of flammables" shall mean and include any person which,
under individual written contracts or agreements of a term or duration of not less than 90
days, with a limited number of persons, engages in the transportation, as a carrier of
flammables, in bulk, for compensation within the State of Maryland.

(hh) "Private carriers of flammables" shall mean and include those carriers of
flammable liquids in bulk, where the carrier is the owner of the cargo or carriage is for the
purpose of sale or in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise to which carriage is
incidental. All carriers in this class shall be specifically exempted from the provisions of
this article.]

[(ii)](EE) "Radio common carrier" shall mean every public service company
operating or managing a radio common carrier engaged in the business of providing a
service of one-way or two-way radio communications and licensed as a miscellaneous
common carrier by the Federal Communications Commission, but not engaged in the
business of providing a public land line message telephone service or a public message

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