PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                            H.B. 918

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 8-408(a)
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

8-408.

(a) Highway user revenues distributed to Baltimore City and Kent County may be
used only to pay or finance:

(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.

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