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380 LICENSES. [ART. LVI
right of action to any individual who would not be entitled to the same
in the absence of such provision.*
The acts of 1916, chapter 687 and chapter 610, compared and con-
trasted; the latter applies to motor vehicles used as common carriers,
including a jitney, although its route may vary from time to time. Indict-
ment upheld. Class "F" of section 141 has no application to a jitney. The
fact that chapter 610 applies to jitneys does not make it applicable to
taxicabs. Power reposed in the public service commission under chapter
610. Smith v. State, 130 Md. 484.
As to lien for storage and accessories of motor vehicles, see article 63,
section 54.
As to lights on vehicles at rest on the public highways, see article 27,
section 483F.
See notes to section 146.
See sections 189 and 195 et seq.
Definitions.
1916, ch. 687. 1918. ch. 85, sec. 134.
134. Whenever the term "motor vehicle" is used in this sub-title,
except when otherwise expressly provided, it shall be taken to include
all vehicles, including motor bicycles, motorcycles, tractors and traction
engines, propelled by any power other than muscular power, except such
vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks. The term "solid tire vehicle"
shall include all motor vehicles equipped with two or more solid tires.
The term "local authorities" shall include all officers of counties, cities,
towns or villages, as well as all boards, committees and other public
officials of such counties, cities, towns or villages. The term "State'' as
used in the sub-title, except when otherwise expressly provided and
except in section 146, shall also include the territories and federal dis-
tricts of the United States. The term "owner" shall include any per-
son, firm, association or corporation owning a motor vehicle, or having
the exclusive use thereof, under lease, hiring or rental thereof, or other-
wise. The term "dealer" shall be taken to include all individuals,
firms or corporations, actively engaged in the business of buying, selling
or exchanging motor vehicles, and who have an established place of
*Section 2 of the act of 1918, chapter 85, repeals all acts and parts of acts,
laws and parts of laws, ordinances and parts of ordinances, inconsistent with
said act of 1918 or contrary thereto to the extent of such inconsistency; section
2 further provides that nothing in said act of 1918 shall affect the provisions of
article 56, section 143A, sections 189-194, and 195 to 200 or any amendments
thereto. Although the act of 1918, chapter 85, takes effect from the date of its
passage (March 28, 1918), section 3 thereof provides that all registration certifi-
cates and markers issued and paid for prior to April 1, 1918, shall be good until
December 31, 1918. Section 3 further provides that the provisions of the act of
1918, chapter 85. conferring certain jurisdiction upon a justice of the peace of
the traffic court in Baltimore City, shall not become effective until June 1, 1918,
until which time jurisdiction over offences against the motor vehicle laws of the
state and the traffic laws of Baltimore City shall remain unchanged. Section 3
also provides that the salaries and expenses of the office of the commissioner of
motor vehicles and those incident to the creation and maintenance of the traffic
court shall, with the approval of the Governor, be paid out of the receipts of the
office of the said commissioner up to and including September 30, 1918, and after-
wards out of the monies appropriated therefor in the budget bill of 1918 from the
special fund created from such receipts.
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