All licensing fees, both for titling and registering cars, and regis-
tering drivers, as well as all fines for violations of the traffic regula-
tions and motor vehicle statutes, are collected and accounted for by the
Commissioner. The judges of the Baltimore City Traffic Court and the
police magistrates in the towns and rural sections make return to the
Commissioner on all fines collected. No part of the costs of arrests or
prosecutions goes to the State officers operating under authority of the
Commissioner, where these officers make the arrests.

The system of licensing all pleasure vehicles on a horse-power basis,
commercial vehicles and trucks on a tonnage basis, and public service
lines, both freight and passenger, on ton-mile or passenger-mile basis,
which had obtained for years in arriving at licensing charges, was
changed by the Legislature in 1922. Under this new system, a gasoline
tax became operative in Maryland on January 1st, 1924. This tax is
in addition to a reduced horsepower fee and adjustments under the
other types of fees.

Administration of the detail of collecting the gasoline tax is vested
in the State Comptroller, the Motor Vehicles Commissioner retaining,
however, his former duties in the issuance, at a nominal cost, covering
cost of tags and clerical work, of the licensing and registration of cars.
The gasoline tax is imposed as an additional charge upon public service
vehicles. Their ton-mile and passenger-mile ratings and charges will
continue to be computed and enforced by the Commissioner.

All fine and fee income collected by the Commissioner, above the
costs of administration of his office and field forces, goes into the State
Highway Maintenance fund of the State, thus putting back into the
highways built by other means by the State what the motorists is
assumed to have taken out in depreciation of surface and base.

While trials, with either dismissals or convictions, carrying fines
or jail sentences before magistrates furnish a part of the machinery
of the enforcement of the motor vehicle statutes, control of all drivers'
permits to operate cars or motorcycles is vested solely in the Com-
missioner. He not only controls issuance of licenses and can refuse
to permit an unfit applicant to operate a car in the State, but in addi-
tion he holds the power of suspension for a stated period or the abso-
lute revocation of a driver's permit. This without regard to the action
of the Courts in cases tried before them.

Appeal to the Courts from the action of the Commissioner, in sus-
pending, refusing or revoking licenses, is provided in the law, however.

By recent Acts of the Legislature, the following appear as safety
measures designed to enable the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to
make the state highways safe and thereby reduce accidents to a
minimum, viz: (1) upon inability to satisfy a judgment arising from
an automobile accident or collision or certain infractions of the motor
vehicle laws, certain evidence of financial responsibility must be pro-
duced to the Commissioner before licenses may be restored; (2) shat-
ter-proof glass is required in all motor vehicles manufactured or
assembled, sold and registered in this State after July 1, 1935; (3)
periodical inspection of vehicles by designated agencies.

State Departments having to do with regulating the operation of
motor vehicles are as follows: (1) Commissioner of Motor Vehicles;
(2) Public Service Commission; (3) State Roads Commission; (4)
Maryland State Police.