accordance with the State Emergency Medical Services Plan for the transport of
individuals in need of emergency or urgent care to limited services hospitals.

SECTION 2. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 1999.

Approved May 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 679
(House Bill 996)

AN ACT concerning

State Highways - Expressway Designation Process and Regulation of

Highway Access

FOR the purpose of requiring the State Highway Administration (SHA) to follow
specified procedures when designating any part of a State highway as an
expressway; requiring, as part of the expressway designation procedures, notice
to certain local governments, an opportunity for certain local officials to meet
and confer with representatives of SHA, a public informational meeting, and a
public hearing; requiring that certain notices be published in a specified
manner; providing that certain requirements of this Act may be satisfied in a
certain alternative manner; prohibiting SHA from denying the owner of
property abutting certain highways, within the boundaries of a municipal
corporation, all access to the highway unless specified conditions are met; and
generally relating to the designation of expressways by the SHA and access to
State highways within the boundaries of a municipal corporation.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 8-101(h)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 8-620 and 8-625
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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