LICENSES. 359

mission, or shall operate with greater frequency than prescribed by his
approved schedule, where the privilege so to do has been denied or limited,
the Public Service Commission may, after due hearing, upon not less than
three days' notice in writing, to be sent by registered letter to the address
given by the motor vehicle owner when applying for his permit, revoke or
suspend all permits issued to such motor vehicle owner under the provi-
sions of this sub-title, and refuse thereafter to issue such permits to said
motor vehicle owner. Upon the suspension or revocation of a permit by
the Public Service Commission, all certificates of registration issued, to
such motor vehicle owner by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall
thereupon be likewise suspended or revoked. The license, or registration
fees, charged under this sub-title, except in the case of seasonal permits, as
above provided, shall be on the basis of the entire year, but may be issued
on or after the first day of July, in any year, for the remainder of the
year expiring on the 31st day of December, in which event one-half of the
yearly fee shall be paid. No portion of the license or registration fee paid
as aforesaid will be refunded for any part of the year during which said
license is not used, provided, however, that reductions in said fee occa-
sioned by change of route or schedule or abandonment of route, shall be
allowed as a credit upon all sums payable by "such motor vehicle owner, in
the course of the current calendar year, for excess mileage of any motor
vehicle registered in the name of such owner under the provisions of this
sub-title.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 262. 1912, sec. 198. 1916, ch. 714, sec. 4.
262. 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 merchandise or
freight over any specified route, to investigate the feasibility of granting
said permit, the number of motor vehicles to be used, 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, but if said Public Service Commission deems the grant-
ing of such permit prejudicial to the welfare and convenience of the public,
then the said Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and au-
thorized to refuse the granting of same. The said Public Service Com-
mission of Maryland is further empowered and authorized to make such
rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to govern the control and
operation of same, and enforce same by such penalties or forfeitures as it
may prescribe, including the revocation of the permit granted under the
provisions of this sub-title. ¹

Bush & Sons v. P. S. C., 143 Md. 573, reversed in Bush Co. v. Maloy, 267 U. S.
317, 69 L. Ed. 627 (holding act 1922, ch. 401, sec. 4. invalid).

¹ In view of the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in Bush Co. v. Maloy, 267 U.
S. 317 (69 L. Ed. 627), this section is codified as it existed prior to the act of 1922.
ch. 401.