LICENSES. 2025

Magistrates appointed to sit regularly at the Traffic Court, and at other
times when it may, in the opinion of the Governor, become necessary for
such additional Magistrate to sit as a member of said Traffic Court; and

such justice so designated shall not be required to give bond in a sum
greater than that required of other Justices of the Peace by Section 624

of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland.

In the event that any two of said Magistrates are unable to preside at
any time, the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City shall have power to
provide a substitute in the same manner and at the same rate of compensa-
tion as substitutes may now be provided for police justices regularly

assigned to station houses in Baltimore City.

All necessary expenses for the operation of the Traffic Court, including
the salaries of the Magistrates and clerks herein provided for, shall be
paid out of moneys in the hands of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
realized and collected from fines and costs imposed by the Traffic Court,
and should said funds be insufficient in any one year to pay said expenses,
then the deficit shall be paid out of other funds in the hands of the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles realized and collected by him from other
sources.

Whenever the owner or operator of a motor vehicle is accused of a
violation of any provision of the automobile laws of this State, or of any
local ordinance, rule or regulation of any municipality or county of this
State, and a warrant, summons or notice is served upon him to appear for
trial before the Traffic Court or any Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction
to hear the case, he shall be notified in said warrant, summons or notice
of the nature and character of the charge against him, and the day and
hour of such trial shall be fixed at such time, so far as may be practicable,
as shall cause the least inconvenience to such person and the witnesses in
the case.

Motor Vehicles as Bail.

An. Code, sec. 160. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 160.

206. Any person arrested for violating any of the provisions of this
sub-title may tender as bail a motor vehicle of which he is the owner, or
which he has written authority of the owner to pledge as bail, and if such
vehicle is of sufficient value it shall be accepted as security for his appear-
ance in lieu of any other bail. Any person offering a motor vehicle as bail
shall be required to state under oath whether or not there are any mortgages
or liens of any kind against the vehicle so offered, and the amount of such
mortgage or other lien. Any person securing the acceptance of a motor
vehicle as bail by making a false statement concerning the existence of any
mortgage or other lien against such vehicle shall be deemed guilty of
perjury and, upon indictment and conviction in a court of law, punished
accordingly. Any person securing the acceptance of any such motor vehicle
as bail upon the representation that he is the owner of such vehicle, when,
in fact, he is not such owner, shall be deemed guilty of the crime of larceny
and, upon indictment and conviction in a court of law, punished accordingly.