PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 629

(1)     Costs incurred in the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of its
highways and streets;

(2)     Costs incurred by its police department for carrying out traffic functions
and enforcing the traffic laws;

(3)     Costs incurred in its other highway related activities for:
(i) Lighting the highways;

(ii) Stormwater drainage of the highways; and

(iii) Street cleaning, but not including the cost of collection of garbage,
trash, and refuse;

(4)     The payment of its debt service on bonds or other evidences of

obligation for:

(i) The construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of its highways

and streets: and

(ii) Any other of its highway activities, including lighting the highways
and providing stormwater drainage;

(5)     The cost of transportation facilities, as defined in § 3-101 of this article;

(6)     As to Kent County:

(i) The cost of maintaining county owned boat landings; and
(ii) Costs incurred in providing traffic crossing guards; or

(7)     As to Baltimore City, through fiscal year [ 1997] 2002, students' costs of
discounted Mass Transit Administration fares for eligible public school students in
Baltimore City.

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

Approved May 22, 1997.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 629

(Senate Bill 746)

Telecommunications Tax Reform

FOR the purpose of altering the definitions of "public service company "and "gross
receipts" under the public service company franchise tax; defining
"telecommunications service" for purposes of the public service company franchise
tax; altering the public service company franchise tax rate for a person providing a

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