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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

started, and no person shall allow any motor vehicle operated

by him to stand or remain unattended on any road in said

State, or street or road in any town or city in said State, with-

out having first locked the lever, throttle or switch by which

the vehicle may be set in motion.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That any person violating the

Penalties for
violations.

provisions of this Act shall, except as otherwise provided here-

in, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding the amount

hereinafter set forth: For a violation of Section 1, fifty dol-

lars ; for a violation of Section 2, twenty dollars ; for a viola-

tion of Section 3, twenty dollars; for a violation of Section 4,

Subdivision 1, twenty-five dollars; for a violation of Section 4,

Subdivision 2, twenty-five dollars ; for a violation of Section

4, Subdivision 3, fifty dollars ; for a violation of Section 5,

fifty dollars or confinement in the county jail for not less than

thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the magistrate or court.

In default of the payment of any of the above fines there shall

be imposed an imprisonment in the county jail for a period not

exceeding thirty days; provided, that any offender who shall

have been guilty of a violation of this Act and sentenced

therefor, and who shall be convicted of a second offense of the

Second of-

same violation, may for such second offense be fined in double

fense.

the amount herein prescribed for the first offense, or may be

punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not

exceeding three months.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That whenever the term

Defining

"motor vehicle" is used in this Act it shall be construed to

the term "mo-
tor vehicle."

include automobiles, locomobiles and all other vehicles pro-

pelled otherwise than by muscular power, except the cars of

electric and steam railways and other motor vehicles running

upon rails or tracks ; but nothing in this Act contained shall

be construed to apply to or affect bicycles, tricycles or such

other vehicles as are propelled exclusively by muscular power.

This Act shall not apply to the vehicles known as motorcycles,

but shall apply only to those mechanically-propelled vehicles

having more than two wheels.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 519.

AN ACT to refund to William P. Dodson, of Norfolk, Vir-

ginia, a sum of money erroneously paid by him into the

State Treasury.