S.B. 727                                                  VETOES

Section 6-102.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland has a significant interest in maintaining a safe,
hazard-free working environment in the ports and harbors of the State through programs
to ensure that alcohol and substance abuse problems among pert marine facility workers
are discouraged, identified, and treated; and

WHEREAS, Modern pert marine facilities include sophisticated machinery that
require highly skilled, attentive workers to operate the functions of the ports and harbors;

and

WHEREAS, The interest of the State in an Alcohol-Free and Drug-Free
Workplace Program programs at pert marine facilities in the State to ensure the safe,
efficient operation of port marine facilities that may attract commerce, ensure healthy
workers, and encourage the rehabilitation of alcohol and drug-abusing workers is
significant enough to warrant alcohol and drug testing of pert marine facilities workers;
now, therefore,

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

Article - Transportation

6-101.

(a)     In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)     "Administration" means the Maryland Port Administration.

(c)     "Commission" means the Maryland Port Commission.

(d)     "Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the Maryland Port
Administration.

(e)     "Port facility" includes any one or more or combination of:

(1)     Lands, piers, docks, wharves, warehouses, sheds, transit sheds, elevators,
compressors, refrigeration storage plants, buildings, structures, and other facilities,
appurtenances, and equipment useful or designed for use in connection with the
operation of a port;

(2)     Every kind of terminal or storage structure or facility useful or designed
for use in handling, storing, loading, or unloading freight or passengers at marine
terminals;

(3)     Every kind of transportation facility useful or designed for use in
connection with any of these; and

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