LICENSES. 2011
($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the first offense,
and to a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more
than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for a second or a'ny subsequent of-
fense, such penalties to be enforced by the Traffic Court of Baltimore City
or any Justice of the Peace of the State having jurisdiction, as provided
in Section 205 of this Article; provided, however, that any person who
may feel himself aggrieved by any general regulation promulgated by
the said Board of Motor Vehicle Headlight Inspection under the powers
contained in this provision, may apply to any court of competent juris-
diction to have the enforcement of the same enjoined on the ground that
such regulation is unreasonable, unlawful or in excess of the powers herein
conferred upon said Board of Motor Vehicle Headlight Inspection.
Any person who shall turn all or any of his motor vehicle lights off
for the purpose of avoiding arrest or identification shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, subject to a penalty of one
hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment for a period not to exceed
ninety days, or both fine and imprisonment for the first offense.
(4) Mufflers. No driver or operator of any motor car, taxicab, auto-
mobile, motor truck or motor cycle shall use any cutout, fitting or other
apparatus or device which will allow the gases from the engine of the
motor vehicle to escape into the atmosphere without first passing through
a silencer, expansion chamber or other contrivance suitable and sufficient
for reducing as far as may be reasonably practicable the noise which would
otherwise be caused by the escape of the said gases; provided that this
regulation shall apply only to a motor vehicle propelled by an internal
combustion engine, and only within the limits of cities, towns and villages
in the State of Maryland.
(4A) Emblems. It shall be unlawful for any person to display upon
a motor vehicle the insignia or emblem of any motor vehicle club or simi-
lar organization, unless he shall be entitled to use the same under the con-
stitution, by-laws, rules or regulations of such club or organization.
(5) Penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and except in other
cases in this section otherwise provided for, upon conviction subject to a
fine of not less than five -dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars
($50.00) for the first offense, provided, however, that in the event ap-
proved lenses or bulbs are used, and, due to improper adjustment, they
do not comply with all the provisions of this section, no penalty shall be
imposed for the first offense.
All the provisions of this Section 193, including the several sub-sec-
tions thereof, shall apply both to the operator of a motor vehicle and to
the owner or person in control thereof who causes or permits such motor
vehicle to be equipped or operated contrary to any of such provisions.
The presumption contended for by appellants that lamp on rear of a tank wagon
was lit in accordance with paragraph (3) of this section, when opposed by positive
evidence of chauffeur that it was not lighted is without probative force and should
not be submitted to jury. Balto. Transit Co. v. Swindell, 132 Md. 279.
No negligence held to be imputed to chauffeur under sec. 150 of the An. Code of
1912 (vol. 3). Chauffeur testified that he did not see plaintiff until she was within a
few inches of machine. Chauffeur need not sound horn every time he passes around
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