Ch. 345

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(c) (1) To promote highway safety, the Administration may limit the width of
existing entrances and exits and determine the locations of access points that may be used
by any commercial or industrial property owner or user into any existing section of a State
highway that carries an average traffic volume of more than 2,000 vehicles a day.

(2) If the Administration finds it expedient for traffic safety, the
Administration may:

(I) [limit] LIMIT the width and location of access points by any
method that it considers desirable; AND

(II) DENY AN ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNER ALL NEW ACCESS
ALONG ANY PRIMARY STATE HIGHWAY IF REASONABLE ACCESS TO ANOTHER
PUBLIC ROAD IS AVAILABLE TO AND FROM THE PROPERTY.

(3) DENIAL OF ACCESS UNDER PARAGRAPH (2)(II) OF THIS SUBSECTION
IS AN EXERCISE OF THE POLICE POWER AND DOES NOT REQUIRE THE PAYMENT OF
COMPENSATION. [However, the Administration may not deny an abutting property
owner all access along any State highway other than a parkway or freeway.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 345
(Senate Bill 298)

AN ACT concerning

Sales and Use Tax — Detective Services — Taxable Price

FOR the purpose of altering the definition of taxable price under the sales and use tax to
exclude certain charges for reimbursement of certain expenses incurred in
connection with providing certain taxable services.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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Section 11-101(j)(3)(i)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1988 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

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11-101.

(j) (3) "Taxable price" does not include:

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