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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="5-413" title_number="5" title_name="Aviation" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Establishment and Operation of State and Local Airports">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Any person who is or becomes a full-time employee of the Maryland Aviation Administration Fire Rescue Service on or before September 30, 1993 shall remain or become a member of the Baltimore City Fire and Police Employees Retirement System. The Administration shall reimburse the City for the employer’s cost of the pension coverage.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Notwithstanding any public local or other law, the operator of a taxicab authorized and licensed to operate in a political subdivision of this State may, without being required to obtain an additional permit or license from any other political subdivision:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Transport passengers to Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport from the political subdivision in which the taxicab is authorized and licensed to operate; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>After transporting passengers to the airport from that political subdivision, pick up passengers at the airport and transport them to the political subdivision on its return trip.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>In this paragraph, “nonairport taxicab operator” means a person authorized and licensed to operate a taxicab in a political subdivision of this State who is not employed by, or under contract with, an entity that holds a contract with the Administration to provide taxicab services at Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A nonairport taxicab operator may not solicit commercial passengers at Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, including in or at the terminal building, vestibules, sidewalks, roadways, and parking lots.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph, a nonairport taxicab operator shall immediately depart the terminal after dropping off a commercial passenger.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A nonairport taxicab operator may park at the operator’s expense in a public parking lot when not transporting commercial passengers to Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>A nonairport taxicab operator who violates this paragraph is subject to a civil fine not exceeding $500.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Administration may not begin construction of the new parallel transport runway, identified in the Airport Master Plan as runway 10 R/28L, until:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Administration:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <level label="1">
          <text>Reviews the current airport noise zone and abatement procedures, such reviews to include an examination and an evaluation of runway curfews; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Updates the noise zone as proposed by the Administration on February 25, 1987;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Adopts the proposed noise assistance programs for residential areas within the airport noise zone including, but not limited to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Extension of the voluntary acquisition program;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>In cooperation with the Board of Airport Zoning Appeals established by Subtitle 5 of this title, strengthening of zoning permit procedures as necessary; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Establishment of a homeowner assistance program; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Implements a pilot program of homeowner assistance in fiscal year 1988; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Highway Administration completes construction of the following highway projects required in conjunction with airport improvements:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Hammonds Ferry Road/Poplar Avenue intersection improvements;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>MD 170/Poplar Avenue intersection;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Poplar Avenue widening;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>MD 176 widenings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>MD 176/Hammonds Ferry Road intersection;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Nursery Road/MD 295 interchange; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>MD 3/MD 176 interchange (auxiliary lane).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The international terminal at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport shall be named the Governor William Donald Schaefer International Terminal.</text>
  </level>
</section>
