2030 ARTICLE 56.

published as herein provided, shall have the force and effect of law, and
any violation of such rules and regulations shall be deemed a misdemeanor
and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $1.00 or more than
$25.00. All fines collected for violations of rules and regulations adopted
under the authority of this Section shall be disposed of in the same manner
as fines collected under ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore.

From and after the date when such rules and regulations become effec-
tive, all ordinances of the Mayor and City Council, and all provisions of
the preceding Section 209 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, title, " Licenses," sub-title " Motor Vehicles," and any other pro-
visions of public general or public local laws inconsistent with such rules
and regulations shall be deemed to have been repealed to the extent of
such inconsistency, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 171 of
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title, " Licenses," sub-
title, " Motor Vehicles," provided that nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to give to the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, subject to
the approval of the Mayor of Baltimore City, any right to make or en-
force any regulation which shall change, alter or affect speed limits,
require any registration or licensing of motor vehicles or operators thereof,
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
operation of a motor vehicle upon any public highway.
See notes to sec. 209.

PART VII.
Gasoline Tax.

1922, ch. 522, sec. 1.

211. The following words, terms and phrases in this sub-title are, for
the purposes hereof, defined as follows:

(a) " Motor Vehicles " shall include all vehicles, engines or machines,
movable or immovable, which are operated or propelled by internal com-
bustion of gasoline, distillate or other volatile and inflammable liquid
fuels.

(b) " Motor vehicle fuels " are such fuels known as gasoline and such
other volatile and inflammable liquids produced or compounded for the
purpose of operating or propelling motor vehicles, except the product
commonly known as kerosene oil.

(c) The term " Dealer " is hereby defined as any person, firm or cor-
poration who imports or causes to be imported gasoline and such other
volatile and inflammable liquids produced or compounded for operating
or propelling motor vehicles, as herein defined, for use, distribution or
sale and delivery in, and after the same reaches, the State of Maryland;
and also any person, firm or corporation who produces, refines, manufac-
tures or compounds such fuel in the State of Maryland for use, distribu-
tion or sale and delivery in this State.