PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 572

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

Approved May 22, 1997.

CHAPTER 572
(House BUI 357)

AN ACT concerning

Urban Highways - Sidewalks and Bicycle Pathways - Lighting

FOR the purpose of expanding certain provisions that apply to urban highways to make
them applicable to certain highways that are located within the boundaries of a
municipal corporation; expanding certain provisions relating to the construction,
reconstruction, and funding of sidewalks to make them applicable to bicycle
pathways; requiring certain sidewalks and bicycle pathways to be maintained and
repaired by the State Highway Administration providing a certain exception related
to funding by the State Highway Administration of the reconstruction of certain
sidewalks and bicycle pathways under certain circumstances: extending the period
during which the State's share of the cost of certain sidewalk construction and
reconstruction projects is limited to a certain amount; requiring providing for the
construction of a certain provision of this Act; requiring the Administration to
maintain and repair certain facilities for nighttime illumination that exist adjacent
to urban highways; and generally relating to urban highways, lighting, sidewalks, and
bicycle pathways.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 8-630

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1993 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article - Transportation

8-630.

(a) (1) In this section[, "urban highway"] THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE
THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2)      "MUNICIPAL CORPORATION" HAS THE MEANING STATED IN
ARTICLE 23A, § 9 OF THE CODE.

(3)     "URBAN HIGHWAY" means a highway, other than an expressway, that is:

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