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license as provided in section 167 of this sub-title for the band of which
the person or persons so arrested are members, then the constable or sheriff,
as the case may be, upon the production to him- of a written notice signed
by the said clerk that a license has been issued for the band of which the
person or persons in his custody are members, and the payment to him of
all costs and expenses of the arrest or arrests or the seizure of the property,
as aforesaid, and the further sum of ten dollars for each and every person
so arrested and in his custody, shall release such person or persons, and
shall pay over the amount or amounts so collected, after deducting all costs,
as aforesaid, as the same would be paid were it a fine imposed by the
circuit court.

Am Code, sec. 132. 1904, sec. 130. 1904, ch. 485, sec. 4.

170. It shall not be necessary for a conviction for violations of any of
the provisions of this sub-title for the State to prove that any person or
persons charged with any such violation has or have no permanent place
of abode in this State, but the burden of proving that such person or persons
have a permanent place of abode in this State shall be upon the traverser;
provided, however, that these provisions shall not apply to Allegany,
Baltimore and Garrett counties.

MOTOR VEHICLES.1

PART I.
General Provisions—Applicability.

An. Code, sec. 133. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 133.

171. The provisions of this sub-title are intended to be State-wide
in their effect, and no city, county or other municipal sub-division of the
State shall have the right to make or enforce any local ordinance or regu-
lation which shall change, alter or affect the speed limits prescribed by
this sub-title, require any registration or licensing of motor vehicles or
operators thereof in addition to the registration and licensing herein pre-
scribed, 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 pre-
scribe and enforce reasonable traffic regulations by fine or imprisonment,
either or both in the discretion of the Court, applicable to all vehicular
traffic, motor vehicles included, provided 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 foi:
parking purposes, in congested sections, and this provision shall not be
deemed as repealed by any act hereafter passed unless this provision is

1 In view of frequent changes in the motor vehicle law, care should be exercised to
ascertain whether decisions deal with statute as it now stands. The reference to the
"An. Code" above the sections is to the section as it appeared in the fourth volume
of the edition of 1912 (if it was in that volume), and in many cases the section is entirely
different from the section bearing the same number in volume 2 or 3 of the Code of 1912.