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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="7-303" title_number="7" title_name="Mass Transit" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Transit Plans and Financing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A transit plan is not effective and steps may not be taken to implement it until the plan has been adopted by the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary may not approve or adopt the location of corridors, routes, stations, and terminals in any political subdivision unless the locations have been approved by the legislative body of the political subdivision.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the legislative body does not advise the Secretary in writing of its action within 180 days after its receipt of notice of the proposed locations, the legislative body is deemed to have approved the location.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before the adoption, revision, or amendment of any transit plan, the Secretary shall send the proposed plan, revision, or amendment to the following, for comment to be made within the time that the Secretary specifies:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Governor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The chief executive officers and the councils or the boards of county commissioners in the District;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Public Service Commission;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Baltimore Regional Council of Governments;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The Department of Planning;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Each private carrier operating in the District;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Each labor union representing employees engaged in transit operations in the District;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>The legislative representatives of any affected political subdivisions; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Any other agency that the Secretary determines.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
