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ART. LVI] MOTOR VEHICLES. 379
MOTOR VEHICLES.
PART I.
General Provisions—Applicability.
1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 133.
133. The provisions of this sub-title are intended to be State-wide
in their effect, and no city, county or other municipal subdivision of
the State shall have the right to make or enforce any local ordinance
or regulation which shall change, alter or affect the speed limits pre-
scribed by this sub-title, require any registration or licensing of motor
vehicles or operators thereof in addition to the registration and licens-
ing herein prescribed, or impose upon the owner or operator of any
motor vehicle any tax, registration fee, license fee, assessment or charge
of any kind for the use of a motor vehicle upon any public highway or
highways of this State, provided that incorporated cities and towns
within the State may prescribe and enforce reasonable traffic regula-
tions by fine or imprisonment, either or both in the discretion of the
Court, applicable to all vehicular traffic, motor vehicles included, pro-
vided such regulations do not involve any charge of any kind for the
use of their highways, other than reasonable charges for the parking of
vehicles within space set aside exclusively for parking purposes, in
congested sections, and this provision shall not be deemed as repealed
by any act hereafter passed unless this provision is expressly referred
to and repealed in terms, or some other clear evidence given of an
intent on the part of the General Assembly to change the policy of the
State herein declared; and provided further that nothing contained in
this section shall be taken to apply to any subsequent or contemporaneous
act of the General Assembly of Maryland itself altering the charges to
be made for the registration or operation of motor vehicles engaged in
the business of common carriers, or placing such a special class for reg-
ulation in other respects.
No city, county or other municipal sub-division of the State shall
have the right to make or enforce any local ordinance or regulation,
under the guise of a traffic regulation, to compel the sounding of bells,
horns or other signalling devices.
Nothing in the sub-title shall be taken in any way to add or to detract
from the right of any person injured in his person or property by the
negligent operation of a motor vehicle to sue and recover damages as
in the case of the negligent use or operation of other vehicles, and the
violation of any provision of this sub-title shall not be taken to give any
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