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ART. LVI] MOTOR VEHICLES. 397
one hundred dollars ($100.00). Any person operating a motor vehicle
upon any highway of this State at a rate of speed greater than sixty
miles per hour shall be subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dol-
lars ($1,000.00), or to be imprisoned for not less than thirty days
nor more than one year, or to both fine and imprisonment, for the first
offense; and any person who shall be convicted of a second or addi-
tional such offense, shall be subject to imprisonment for not less than
sixty days nor more than two years. Any person convicted shall also be
subject, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, to a
suspension or revocation of his operator's license. The provisions of
this section shall apply to the operator and to the owner who causes or
permits his motor vehicle to be operated in violation of this section.
Section 144 of the code of 1912 referred to in holding that a plaintiff
could not recover for injuries to his automobile growing out of a collision.
Gittings v. Schenuit, 122 Md. 286.
Section 144 of the code of 1912 referred to in holding the evidence as to
the excessive speed of an automobile sufficient to go to the jury. Taxicab
Co. of Baltimore v. Emanuel, 125 Md. 258.
See notes to section 148.
When Speed is to be Reduced.
1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 150.
150. Upon approaching any person walking in the traveled por-
tion of any public highway or a horse or any animal being led, ridden
or driven thereon, or a crossing of intersecting public highways, or a
bridge, or a sharp turn, or a curve, or a steep descent, and also in pass-
ing such person or such horse or other animal, and in traversing such
crossing, bridge, turn, curve or descent, the person operating a motor
vehicle or motorcycle shall have the same under control and shall reduce
its speed to a reasonable and proper rate. If such horse or other ani-
mal being so led, ridden or driven shall appear to be frightened, or if
the person in charge thereof shall signal so to do by raising his or her
hand vertically, the person operating such motor vehicle or motorcycle
shall bring the same to a stop, and if traveling in the opposite direc-
tion shall remain stationary so long as may be reasonable to allow such
horse or other animal to pass, or if traveling in the same direction,
shall use reasonable caution in thereafter passing such horse or animal,
but no person shall give such a signal to stop unless necessary. Except
where safety zones are provided the driver or operator of every vehicle
shall bring the same to a full stop not less than five feet from the rear
of any street car headed in the same direction which has stopped for
the purpose of taking on and discharging passengers, and remain stand-
ing until such car has taken on or discharged its passengers. Any per-
son violating any requirements of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not less than
ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for
the first offense. The provisions of this section shall apply to the oper-
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