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the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1948, and as of December 1 of each
year thereafter for each next succeeding fiscal year. To assist the
Commission in making such computations, the County Commissioners
of the respective counties and the appropriate officials of such
municipalities as may have requested a share under said Sub-division
(b), shall not later than December 31, 1948 and not later than each
December SI thereafter, make a report to the Commission, in the
form required by it, showing the mileage added to or removed from
the county roads system within such county or municipality during
the twelve months period ending on the preceding December 1.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 10, 1957.

CHAPTER 541
(House Bill 216)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section (b) of
Section 22 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1956
Supplement) title "State Roads," sub-title "Distribution and Use
of Special Funds," changing the date on which certain municipali-
ties may make certain reports to the State Roads Commission.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sub-section (b) of Section 22 of Article 89B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1956 Supplement), title "State Roads", sub-title
"Distribution and Use of Special Funds," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

22. FUND FOR COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES OTHER
THAN BALTIMORE

(b) Request by municipality for funds; amount distributable;
special improvement districts in Prince George's County.—If any
municipality which is authorized by law to construct or maintain
streets or roads shall request the State Roads Commission in writing
not later than [thirty days] December 31 prior to the beginning of
any fiscal year for its share of the funds distributable under this
section, the State Roads Commission during such fiscal year shall
allocate for the county or such municipality a portion of the share
as first determined in sub-section (a) hereof of the county within
which the municipality lies. Such portion shall be determined by the
proportion which the total mileage of county roads in the municipality
bears to the total mileage of county roads in such county. The por-
tion so determined shall be the municipality's share for the purpose
of this section. In the distribution of the shares pursuant to this
sub-division, the special improvement districts in Prince George's
County in existence on January 1, 1953, shall be treated as municipali-

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