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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 a chauffeur's or motor vehicle operator's license shall
first obtain an examination permit or an instruction license upon paying
the sum of one dollar ($1.00) to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
which such instruction 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 surrendering the instruction license and undergoing a satisfactory
examination as to his qualifications, such person shall be entitled to re-
ceive the license applied for upon the payment of the fees provided by
Section 188 of 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 upon demand by any officer of the law,
and said license shall have endorsed thereon in the proper handwriting
of the licensee the name of said licensee, and when requested by a proper
officer, in the discharge of his duties under the law, said licensee shall
write his name in the presence of said officer, to the end that the identity
of said licensee may be determined, provided that no operator of a motor
vehicle shall be stopped by any officer for the sole purpose of exhibiting
his operator's license. No license badge shall be worn.
No person, whether resident or non-resident of the State, under sixteen
years shall operate a motor vehicle upon any road, highway, street, lane
or other public way within the State of Maryland. No person under the
age of sixteen years, whether resident or non-resident, shall operate, drive
or direct any motor cycle, as aforesaid, provided that persons between
the age of fourteen and sixteen years, in the discretion of the Commis-
sioner of Motor. Vehicles, may obtain licenses to operate bicycles with
motor attachments.
It shall be unlawful to obtain or attempt to obtain licenses by mis-
representation, or to use or permit the use of a license by any person
other than the one to whom it was issued, or to change the name of the
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