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§ 8-406. Highway user revenue distribution

West's Annotated Code of MarylandTransportation

West's Annotated Code of Maryland
Transportation
Title 8. Highways (Refs & Annos)
Subtitle 4. Highway User Revenues (Refs & Annos)
MD Code, Transportation, § 8-406
§ 8-406. Highway user revenue distribution
Certification to Administration
(a) A distribution of highway user revenues may not be made to any county, municipality, or Baltimore City unless the local government in its current fiscal year certifies to the Administration that revenues will be used in compliance with all applicable laws.
Reversion of revenues back to Transportation Trust Fund
(b) If any highway user revenues otherwise distributable under this subtitle are not distributed by the close of the fiscal year of the county, municipality, or Baltimore City because the local government failed to make the required certification, these highway user revenues shall revert to the Transportation Trust Fund.
Suspension of local laws requiring levy or rate for road maintenance
(c) The county governments and other local authorities are relieved from the requirements of existing local law for levying a minimum amount or rate for road maintenance, and the portions of all public local laws making any such requirement are suspended.
Correction of traffic control devices
(d) The Secretary of the Department of Transportation may reduce highway user revenues to each appropriate local governing body in the following fiscal year by the specific amount of the cost necessary to correct individual instances of noncompliance concerning State standards of uniformity for traffic control devices.

Credits

Added by Acts 1977, c. 13, § 2, eff. July 1, 1977. Amended by Acts 1980, c. 675; Acts 1988, c. 6, § 1; Acts 1993, c. 330.
Formerly Art. 89B, §§ 33, 34, 38A, 41.
MD Code, Transportation, § 8-406, MD TRANS § 8-406
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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