LICENSES. 2005

licensee or the date or age or any other information appearing upon any
license issued by the Commissioners of Motor Vehicles.

Any person violating any provision of this section, or any owner, opera-
tor or person in charge of a motor vehicle who shall cause or permit the
operation of such motor vehicle in violation of any provision of this sec-
tion, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be
subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than
one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first offense, provided that the
minimum fine in the case of a person to whom an operator's license has
been duly issued, but who, through inadvertance, has not the same with
him at the time of his arrest, shall be one dollar ($1.00) instead of ten
dollars ($10.00) as above prescribed.

A state may not require a post office employee to take out a license before driving
in the state a government motor truck in transportation of mail. A United States
employee does not secure a general immunity from state law while acting in course
of his employment. Johnson v. Maryland, 254 U. S. 51.

Indictment for failure to comply with sec. 140 (vol. 3) An. Code, 1912, need not
negative exceptions mentioned in sec. 161 of that Code (vol. 2)—see sec. 174 hereof.
Since a license is a mere permit, it is always revocable, and the provision of this
section (as it stood prior to act, 1912, ch. 133), that the license " shall be good until
suspended or revoked " and " shall not be required to be renewed annually," does not
alter the case. Said sec. 161 does not create arbitrary distinctions. Purpose of the
" motor vehicle " law; it comes within police power and is constitutional and valid.
See notes to arts. 15 and 23 of Declaration of Rights and to art. 3, secs. 29 and 38,
of Md. Constitution. Ruggles v. State, 120 Md. 553.

187.1

Fees of Operators.

An. Code, sec. 144. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 144.

188. The following fees shall be paid the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles for licenses to operate motor vehicles in this State. Two dol-
lars ($2.00) to operate motor vehicles other than motorcycles; one dollar
($1.00) to operate motorcycles and bicycles with motor attachments. Such
license shall be good until suspended or revoked as hereinafter provided,
and shall not be required to be renewed annually. Provided, however,
that the foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to chauffeurs,
but the latter shall be required to obtain an operator's license, as herein-
before provided, renewable at the end of one year from the date of issue,
and shall pay therefor the sum of three dollars ($3;00) per year.

Duplicate licenses shall be supplied by the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles for fifty cents each in case where he is satisfied the original has
been lost. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have authority, in
disputed cases, to determine the kind of license to which any applicant
may be entitled.

See notes to sec. 194.

1 Through inadvertence no section was numbered " 187."