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392 LICENSES. [ART. LVI
be recognized by such other States, and he is further authorized and
empowered from time to time, to grant to residents of other States the
privilege of using the roads of this State as in this section provided in
return for similar privileges granted residents of this State by such
other States.
The foregoing exemption of non-residents shall not apply to oper-
ators of motor vehicles or motorcycles who are residents of States which
do not require the display of identification markers on the same, nor
shall it apply to non-residents of this State who have temporary resi-
dences in this State for periods in excess of three months in any year
or to non-residents engaged regularly in the transportation of passengers
or freight for hire wholly or partly in this State.
Any non-resident operating a motor vehicle in this State contrary to
the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of displaying a
fictitious marker, or operating without a license and subject to the
penalties prescribed elsewhere in this sub-title for such offenses in the
case of residents.
In the absence of national legislation a state may prescribe uniform
regulations necessary for public safety and order in respect to the opera-
tion of motor vehicles upon its highways—those moving in interstate com-
merce as well as others. The reasonableness of the state's regulations are
open to inquiry so far as they affect interstate commerce, and in that
regard it is subordinate to the will of congress. Regulations and charges
under section 143 of the code of 1912, held reasonable; who may not com-
plain of law. Hendrick v Maryland, 59 L. Ed. 385
PART IV.
Operation of Motor Vehicles—Display of Markers.
1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 147.
147. Every motor vehicle, except motorcycles, and as hereinafter
otherwise provided, shall at all times while being used or operated in
this State, have displayed, entirely unobscured and kept reasonably
clean, the number plates or markers issued by the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles for such motor vehicles as hereinbefore provided.
One of such plates or markers shall be displayed conspicuously on the
front and the other on the rear of such motor vehicle, both to be fas-
tened so as not to swing. Every motorcycle or bicycle with motor
attachment while being used or operated in this State shall have dis-
played on the rear thereof a plate or marker furnished by the Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles as aforesaid, said plate or marker to be so
fastened as to be entirely unobscured and to be kept reasonably clean,
and fastened so as not to swing.
No motor vehicle while used or operated in this State shall have dis-
played upon either the front or the rear of such vehicle more than two
plates or markers, nor shall any person display or permit to be dis-
played upon any motor vehicle operated in this State the registration
number belonging to another vehicle, or a fictitious number plate or
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