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<subtitle article="gtr" title_number="4" subtitle_number="1" title_name="Revenue Facilities" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="4-101" title_number="4" title_name="Revenue Facilities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>“Authority” means the Maryland Transportation Authority.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>“Cost”, as applied to any transportation facilities project, includes the cost of and all expenses incident to the construction, reconstruction, acquisition, improvement, extension, alteration, modernization, planning, maintenance, and repair of the project, including the cost and expenses of:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>All property acquired in connection with it;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Financial, architectural, consulting, engineering, and legal services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>Plans, specifications, surveys, estimates, feasibility reports, and direct and indirect labor, material, equipment, and administrative expenses; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>Financing the project, including financing charges and interest before, during, and for 1 year after completion of construction.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>“Outstanding and unpaid” does not include:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>Bonds purchased and held in sinking funds by or for the Authority; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>If the money for their payment or redemption has been provided:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>Matured bonds not presented for payment; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>Bonds called for redemption but not presented for redemption.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <text>“Refunding” means the retirement and cancellation of bonds, including revenue bonds of prior issues, after their acquisition by or for the Authority, whether before, at, or after maturity, either in exchange for other bonds or by payment, purchase, or redemption with the proceeds of the sale of other bonds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="f">
      <text>“Resolution”, as used with respect to the Authority, means a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the appointed members of the Authority and concurred in by the Chairman.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="g">
      <text>“Revenue bonds of prior issues” means:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>“State of Maryland Bridge and Tunnel Revenue Bonds” dated as of October 1, 1954;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>“State of Maryland Northeastern Expressway Revenue Bonds” dated as of January 1, 1962;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>“State of Maryland Bridge and Tunnel Revenue Bonds”:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>“(Series 1968)” dated as of October 1, 1968; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>“(Series 1975)” dated as of July 1, 1975; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>Any other revenue bonds issued under the same provisions of law that authorized the issuance of the bonds listed in this subsection.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="h">
      <text>“Transportation facilities project” includes:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>The Susquehanna River Bridge, the Harry W. Nice/Thomas “Mac” Middleton Potomac River Bridge, the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Chesapeake Bay Bridge and parallel Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, the Fort McHenry Tunnel, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway, together with their appurtenant causeways, approaches, interchanges, entrance plazas, toll stations, and service facilities;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>A vehicle parking facility located in a priority funding area as defined in § 5–7B–02 of the State Finance and Procurement Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>Any other project for transportation facilities that the Authority authorizes to be acquired or constructed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>Any additions, improvements, or enlargements to any of these projects, whenever authorized.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="i">
      <text>“Transportation facility” has the meaning stated in § 3–101 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="j">
      <text>“Vehicle parking facility” means a controlled entrance and exit building, structure, surface lot, and other facility for parking vehicles, for which fees or charges are established for the use of the facility.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="4-102" title_number="4" title_name="Revenue Facilities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
    <text>The exercise of the powers granted by this title is in all respects for the benefit of the people of this State and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and the activities of the Authority and the operation and maintenance of its projects constitute essential governmental functions.</text>
  </section>
</subtitle>