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388 LICENSES. [ART. LVI
remaining. In cases where the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles is sat-
isfied that a motor vehicle has been stolen, and has been removed from
the State, or that there is little likelihood of its being recovered, he is
authorized to make a refund of the amount paid for registration
markers and certificate on a basis of quarterly periods of use yet
remaining.
License to Operators.
1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 143.
143. No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon any highway of
this State until he first shall have obtained a license for the purpose.
The Commissioner shall require an actual demonstration of the quali-
fications of the person applying for such license, and in addition may
refuse to issue the same if in his judgment, the safety of the public
would be jeopardized thereby, but said applicant shall have the right
to appeal if license is refused, as provided elsewhere, in this sub-title.
Any person desiring to receive instructions in the operation of motor
vehicles, except tractors or traction engines, shall first obtain an instruc-
tion license upon paying the sum of one dollar ($1.00) to the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles, which such license shall entitle the person
to whom it is issued to operate a motor vehicle, only when accompanied
by a regularly licensed operator, for a period of thirty days from the
date of its issue, at which time it shall expire and become void. At
or before the expiration of the thirty-day period, persons licensed to
receive instructions and desiring to obtain an operator's or chauffeur's
license must apply in person to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
or one of his Deputies, at the Baltimore office of the said Commissioner,
or any of the places throughout the State which the Commissioner may
designate for the convenience of applicants. Upon surrending the
instruction license and undergoing a satisfactory examination as to his
qualifications, such person shall be entitled to receive the license applied
for upon the payment of the fees provided by Section 144 or* this sub-
title.
Applications for licenses shall be made upon blanks furnished by said
Commissioner, and said application blanks and said licenses shall be in
such form and contain such provisions, not inconsistent with this sub-
title, as said Commissioner may determine. A number shall be assigned
to each license and a proper record of all applications for licenses, and
of all licenses issued, shall be kept by said Commissioner at his office
and shall be open to public inspection. Each license shall state the
name, age, post office address of the licensee and the number assigned to
him, and shall entitle the licensee to operate any car of any make,
unless otherwise specified thereon. Said license certificate shall at all
times be carried by the licensee when he is operating a motor vehicle
upon the highways of this State, and shall be subject to examination
*Evidently a typographical error in the act.
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