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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="8-408" title_number="8" title_name="Highways" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Highway User Revenues">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Highway user revenues distributed to Baltimore City and Kent County may be used only to pay or finance:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Costs incurred in the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of its highways and streets;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>As to Baltimore City, costs incurred for carrying out traffic functions and enforcing the traffic laws; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>As to Kent County, costs incurred by its police department for carrying out traffic functions and enforcing the traffic laws;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Costs incurred in its other highway related activities for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Lighting the highways;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Stormwater drainage of the highways; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Street cleaning, but not including the cost of collection of garbage, trash, and refuse;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The payment of its debt service on bonds or other evidences of obligation for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of its highways and streets; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any other of its highway activities, including lighting the highways and providing stormwater drainage;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The cost of transportation facilities, as defined in § 3–101 of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>As to Kent County:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The cost of maintaining county owned boat landings; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Costs incurred in providing traffic crossing guards.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The net share of highway user revenues distributed for a county other than Kent County may be used only:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>First, to pay debt service on outstanding bonds or other evidences of obligation issued before June 1, 1947, by or for the county or any municipality in the county to finance construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of roads or streets, to the extent that gasoline tax revenues have been lawfully dedicated, pledged, or otherwise committed to that debt service, so that the dedication, pledge, or commitment remains unimpaired and continues as a charge against the county’s share of the gasoline tax to the same extent that it was a charge against any gasoline tax revenues under prior laws; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Then, as to the remainder of the county’s share, to pay or finance:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The cost of transportation facilities, as defined in § 3–101 of this article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>For Talbot County, maintenance of private roads as authorized in § 12–539 of the Local Government Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of county roads; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Debt service on bonds or other evidences of obligation that, for the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of county roads, are lawfully issued on or after June 1, 1947, by or for the county or by or for a municipality in the county that is not receiving its own share under § 8–407 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The net share of highway user revenues distributed for a municipality may be used only to pay or finance:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The cost of transportation facilities, as defined in § 3–101 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of roads or streets; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Debt service on bonds or other evidences of obligation lawfully issued by or for the municipality for the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of roads or streets.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
