SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1341

vation of the public health and safety and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 669
(House Bill 386)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 50 of
Article 25 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement
Volume), title "County Commissioners," subtitle "Bridges," to
allow counties of the State to post bridges without investigation
by or authorization by the State Roads Commission in counties
having the facilities to perform such investigation and posting
PERMIT CERTAIN COUNTIES OF THE STATE TO INSPECT
AND POST WEIGHT LIMITATIONS FOR BRIDGES ON COUNTY
ROADS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 50 of Article 25 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1966 Replacement Volume), title "County Commissioners," subtitle
"Bridges," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows:

50.

The county commissioners of the several counties of the State,
the highways commission thereof or other public boards or officers
having control over the public bridges and culverts of said counties,
the State Roads Commission in the case of bridges and culverts
under its control, the public boards or officers having control over
bridges between adjacent counties, turnpikes or plank road com-
panies, and bridge companies or other individuals or corporations
owning or controlling private or quasi public bridges used by the
public for compensation or otherwise, shall have the power and
right to regulate the weight of wagons, trucks, road engines, road
rollers, traction engines, threshing machines or other vehicles of any
kind passing over such bridges and culverts, and the rate of speed of
such vehicles while passing over the same, by posting and maintain-
ing conspicuously at both ends of or entrances to said bridges or cul-
verts signboards with lettering not less than three inches in height,
worded as follows, to wit: "Warning—Weight not to exceed (here
insert numerals) pounds. Speed not to exceed (here insert numerals)
miles per hour," which shall be taken to mean that no vehicle of any
kind, as above enumerated, weighing, with or without any load
which may be in or upon the same, more than the number of pounds
specified on said signboard, shall pass or be drawn, driven, propelled
or in any other manner taken over said bridge or culvert, and that
no such vehicle of any kind as above enumerated shall pass or be
drawn, driven, propelled or in any other manner taken over said
bridge or culvert at a greater rate of speed than that specified on
said signboard; provided, however, that no such sign or signs shall be