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or designated as safety zones by duly constituted State or municipal au-
thorities. Whenever reference is made in this sub-title to a motor vehicle
equipped with six wheels it shall be construed to mean a motor vehicle with
not more than two wheels on any axle and with all three wheels on each
side of the motor vehicle approximately in line.

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have authority, in disputed
cases, to determine the extent of the applicability of the definitions herein
contained.

"Owner" as used in this section does not include person hiring motor vehicle
for few hours or days so as to require registration or titling; "disputed'' means
no more than "doubtful. " Baughman v. Milstone, 144 Md. 227.

Cited in construing sec. 209—see notes thereto. Snibbe v. Robinson, 151 Md.
662.

PART II.

Commissioner of Motor Vehicles—Appointment of.

175.

See notes to sec. 173.

Disposition of Fines and Other Receipts.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 178. 1912, sec. 139. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 139.

1929, ch, 95.

178. All fines, penalties and forfeitures of bonds, or any other kind of
authorized security, imposed or collected under any of the provisions of
this sub-title shall be paid over within five days after the receipt thereof
to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles with a statement accompanying the
same, setting forth the action or proceedings in which such monies were
collected, the name and residence of the defendant, the nature of the of-
fense, and the fine, penalty, forfeiture or sentence, if any, imposed. And
this section shall not be considered as repealed by the passage hereafter of
any law providing for a different disposition of fines and penalties in any
county or other municipal division of this State unless the same contains
a repeal of this section by express references thereto. Said Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles is hereby empowered in the name of the State of Mary-
land to take all steps necessary to enforce the collection and prompt return
of all such fines, penalties and forfeitures of bends, and when any motor
vehicle shall have been deposited as security under the provisions of this
sub-title, and said security is forfeited, the same may be disposed of by the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, or under his discretion by the officer hav-
ing the said motor vehicles in charge, at public auction, and the proceeds
thereof dealt with pursuant to the provisions of this sub-title, unless within
ten days after notice by mail to the owner of such motor vehicle, or the
person leaving the same as security, the same shall be redeemed. Any
Justice of the Peace, Committing Magistrate or Police Justice accepting
checks, drafts or any other unsecured evidences of debt in payment of fines,
or in lieu of bail, shall do so at his own risk, provided that nothing herein
shall be taken to prohibit the release of offenders on their own recognizance