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and all moneys so collected shall be accounted for and remitted by the
Motor Vehicle Commissioner to the State Treasurer on or before the first
day of May of each year, along with a statement showing the amount due
the State Roads Commission on account of all moneys so collected for
the use of State and State Aid Roads, and must further show the amount
due the respective Boards of County Commissioners for the use of all
improved County Roads and also the amounts due the Mayors of the
respective towns and cities in the State of Maryland for the use of all
streets and roads in said towns and cities, the amounts so due in each case
to be computed upon a mileage basis, and said State Treasurer shall create
a special fund thereof and on the fifteenth day of May in each year shall
pay, on warrant, to the State Roads Commission of Maryland all moneys
so collected for use of State and State Aid Roads, to the respective Boards
of County Commissioners all moneys collected for the use of improved
County Roads, and to the Mayors of the respective towns and cities in
the State of Maryland all moneys collected for the use of the roads and
streets of said towns and cities, and all such moneys so collected shall be
used for the maintenance of said roads and streets over which said motor
vehicles shall operate.

An. Code, sec. 192. 1916, ch. 610, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 401, sec. 4.

255. It shall be the duty of the Public Service Commission of Mary-
land, upon the application of any motor vehicle owner for a permit to
operate any motor vehicle for the public transportation of passengers over
any specified route, to investigate the expediency of granting said permit;
the number of motor vehicles to be used, and the rate to be charged, and
if, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, it is deemed best
for public welfare and convenience that said permit should be granted,
said Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and authorized to
grant such permit subject to such reasonable conditions and terms, and
for such duration of time, not exceeding the period of twenty years, as it
may deem advisable, provided, however, that permits to operate over the
streets of the City of Baltimore shall only be granted for periods of not
less nor more than one year. But if said Public Service Commission
deems the granting of such permit prejudicial to the welfare and conve-
nience of the public, then the said Public Service Commission is hereby
empowered and authorized to refuse the granting of the same. The said
Public Service Commission of Maryland is further empowered and au-
thorized to make such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to
govern the control and operation of same, and enforce the same by such
penalties or forfeitures as it may prescribe, including the revocation of
the permit granted under the provisions of this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 193. 1916, ch. 610, sec. 5.

256. Every person owning or operating any such motor vehicle in
violation of any of the provisions of this sub-title, or in violation of the
rules and regulations aforesaid of the Public Service Commission, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction subject to a fine