(4) Will not impair highway safety.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 1999.

Approved April 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 16
(Senate Bill 43)

AN ACT concerning

Commercial Vehicles - Safety Inspections

FOR the purpose of authorizing certain safety inspections of commercial motor
vehicles to include the inspection of certain records and files; authorizing certain
personnel to conduct safety inspections; deleting obsolete language and
clarifying language relating to the Preventive Maintenance Program and motor
carrier safety inspections; and generally relating to the Preventive Maintenance
Program and motor carrier safety inspections.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 23-302 and 25-111
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1998 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - Transportation

23-302.

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, an owner of a
vehicle shall have the vehicle inspected, maintained, and repaired at least every
25,000 miles or at least every 12 months, whichever occurs first.

(2) An owner of a vehicle registered under § 13-919 of this article that
has been in operation for at least 18 years from the vehicle's model year or first
registration date, whichever is later, shall have the vehicle inspected, maintained,
and repaired at least every 12,500 miles or at least every 6 months, whichever occurs
first.

(b) A vehicle shall meet or exceed the standards and requirements set under
the regulations adopted under this subtitle.

(c) A vehicle may not be operated unless at all times it [carries the
appropriate required document, as follows: