Ch. 3                                       1992 LAWS OF MARYLAND

inclusion of at least one of their vehicles in the multi-year registration program.
Individuals or families owning more than one currently registered vehicle should be
allowed to stagger their vehicle registrations in order to avoid large vehicle registration
costs in any one year.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Maryland
Transportation Authority is authorized to accelerate at least $15,000,000 of its planned
Fiscal Year 1993 transfer of $25,000,000 to the Transportation Trust Fund prior to June
30, 1992.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:

(a)     In this section, "previously ineligible local bus service" means the number of
annual platform miles and annual platform hours of fixed route, scheduled, local bus
service provided by local bus systems prior to July 1, 1989 that did not replace comparable
service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

(b)     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to the grants set forth
in § 10-207 of the Transportation Article, the Department of Transportation, for Fiscal
Year 1993, shall pay to Montgomery County $4,000,000 of the annual service deficit of
previously ineligible local bus service.

SECTION 8. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law to the contrary, from the effective date of this Act through June 30,
1993, half of all fees received from vehicles charged a 2-year registration fee in Fiscal
Year 1993 as a result of the multiyear registration program enacted by this Act shall be
credited to the Transportation Trust Fund in the account of the Department of
Transportation.

SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law regarding the distribution of revenues to the contrary, the increases
in motor fuel and motor carrier taxes required under the provisions of this Act shall take
effect on May 1, 1992 and the revenues generated by these increases for Fiscal Year 1992
shall accrue only to the Transportation Trust Fund for the account of the Department of
Transportation.

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding the
provisions of § 9-204 of the Tax - General Article, for the purposes of assessing the motor
carrier tax for the second quarter of calendar year 1992, the motor carrier tax rate for the
second quarter of calendar year 1992 only shall be 19 cents per gallon of special fuel other
than turbine fuel, as defined in § 9-305 of the Tax - General Article. The Comptroller of
the Treasury shall assess this motor carrier tax rate for this defined period. Motor carriers
exempt from filing a motor carrier tax return under the provisions of § 9-208(a) of the
Tax - General Article will be deemed as having paid the appropriate motor carrier tax
rate on all fuel purchased in Maryland during the second quarter of 1992.

SECTION 11. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That each person holding tax
paid motor fuel, excluding aviation fuel, for sale at the start of business on May 1, 1992,
shall compile and file an inventory of the motor fuel held at the close of business on April
30, 1992 and remit within 30 days any additional motor fuel taxes that are due.

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