550                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 254

CHAPTER 254

(Senate Bill 670)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3-829 (a)
of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Vehicle Laws," subtitle "Subtitle 3. Certifi-
cates of Title and Registration of Vehicles," subheading "Part
VIII. Fees Connected with Registration and Titling," to exempt
authorized canteen wagons of recognized fire buff organizations
from paying registration fees pursuant to this subtitle.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3-829 (a) of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume), title "Vehicle Laws," sub-
title "Subtitle 3. Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles,"
subheading "Part VIII. Fees Connected with Registration and
Titling," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

3-829.

(a) All vehicles owned and used by the United States, the State
of Maryland, or any city, town, village, or county of this State, and
all vehicles owned and used for personal or official purposes by
accredited consular or diplomatic officers of foreign governments,
which officers are nationals of the state by which they are appointed
and are not citizens of the United States, and by any incorporated
volunteer fire company incorporated in this State or rescue squad
and used for fire-fighting or ambulance purposes, all authorized
canteen wagons of recognized fire buff organizations AS CERTI-
FIED BY THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE BUFFS ASSOCIATION,
and all motor vehicles owned and used personally by veterans who
have either lost or lost the use of one or both legs, or an arm or a
hand, or who are blind, and all vehicles owned and used by the Civil
Air Patrol, are exempted from the provisions of this subtitle
requiring the payment of registration fees. The vehicles shall display
identification markers approved by the Commissioner and the iden-
tification markers or other insignia on the vehicles of veterans who
have either lost or lost the use of one or both legs, or an arm or a
hand, shall indicate that they have been so designated or classified
by the Veterans' Administration; and for the purposes of this sub-
section a person shall be considered blind if he has a permanent
impairment of both eyes of the following status: central visual acuity
of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central
visual acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which
the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest
diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater
than twenty degrees in the better eye.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved April 29, 1971