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copy thereof, or by mailing a certified copy thereof, in a sealed package,
with postage prepaid, to the person to be affected thereby; or, in the case of
a corporation, to any officer or agent thereof upon whom summons may be
served under the laws of this State. It shall be the duty of every person
and corporation to notify the Commission forthwith in writing of the re-
ceipt of the certified copy of every order so served, and in the case of a
corporation such notification must be signed and acknowledged by a person
or officer duly authorized by the corporation to admit such service. Within
a time specified in the order of the Commission every person and corpora-
tion upon whom it is served must, if so required in the order, notify the
Commission in like manner whether the terms of the order are accepted
and will be obeyed.

All orders of the Commission shall take effect within such reasonable
time as it shall prescribe, and shall continue in force until its further order,
or for a specified period of time according as shall be prescribed in the
order, unless the same shall be suspended, or modified, or set aside by the
Commission, or be suspended or set aside by a court of competent jurisdic-
tion.

Any company, corporation, association, person or partnership subject
to any of the provisions of this sub-title, or other person or party in inter-
est, shall have the right to proceed in the courts to vacate, set aside or have
modified any order of said Commission on the grounds that such order is
unreasonable or unlawful, as hereinafter more particularly set forth.
See notes to secs. 394 and 404.

362.

Commission has no jurisdiction to authorize sale by municipality of property
dedicated to public use; powers conferred upon commission are of a regulatory
nature and do not include either granting or withdrawal of franchises. Wor-
cester v. Hancock, 151 Md. 678.

See notes to sec. 373.

364.

See notes to sec. 373.

1927, ch. 335, sec. 364A.

364A. Whenever there shall be filed with the Commission, by any
public service corporation, company or individual, subject to the jurisdic-
tion of the Commission, any schedule stating a new individual or joint rate,
fare or charge, or any new individual or joint classification, or any new
individual or joint regulation or practice affecting any rate, fare or charge,
the Commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon
complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it
so orders, without answer or other formal pleading by the proponent or
proponents of said new schedule, but upon reasonable notice, to enter upon
a hearing concerning the lawfulness or reasonableness of such rate, fare,
charge, classification, regulation or practice; and pending such hearing and
the decision thereon the Commission upon filing with such schedule and
delivering to said proponent or proponents of said new schedule affected