TALBOT COUNTY. 4645
a fire or reported location of a fire and giving a signal or signals as pro-
vided in Section 437 hereof, while traveling on, over or across any of the
public roads, highways or streets in Talbot County, all persons using any
of said roads, highways or streets and driving or in charge of a motor
vehicle, other vehicle or team, whether traveling in the same direction as,
or in the opposite direction from, said fire engine, or other said vehicle, or
approaching it at an intersection or fork of any of said roads, highways
or streets, shall immediately, upon the approach of said fire engine, or
other said vehicle, operated as aforesaid, take position as far to the right
of the center of the road, highway or street, as practicable, shall cause said
vehicle or team immediately to come to a full stop and so remain until
such fire engine, or other said vehicle, has passed: and all persons shall
be, and are, hereby required to give the same right of way and to act in
like manner as above provided when approached by any ambulance using
signals as provided in Section 437 hereof when such ambulance is on its
Way to obtain a sick or injured person or persons or when conveying the
same.
1927, ch. 622, sec. 3.
439. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be-
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction before a Justice of
the Peace having criminal jurisdiction in Talbot County, or before the
Court, shall be subject to a fine of not less than One Dollar nor more than
One Hundred Dollars, or be confined to the County Jail not exceeding
sixty days, or be both fined and imprisoned, within the limits above pre-
scribed, in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace, Police Justice or
Court before whom trial is had.*
440-441. Vacant.
ST. MICHAELS.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 175. 1880, ch. 105.
442. The citizens of the town of St. Michaels, in Talbot county, are
a body corporate by the name of "The Commissioners of St. Michaels,"
with all the privileges of a body corporate, and may have and use a com-
mon seal and have perpetual succession, and sue and be sued.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 176. 1880, ch. 105. 1854, ch. 603. 1908, ch. 133 (p. 1025).
443. The taxable limits of the town of St. Michaels, Talbot county,.
Maryland, in addition to the boundaries of said town as now existing and
described on the plats thereof on record in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Talbot county, shall, from and after the passage of this
Act, be all the lands embraced in the following limits: Beginning at the
shore at the northwest extremity of Parrott's point, at the mouth of the
harbor of St. Michaels, and running thence south thirty and one-half
*Sec. 4, ch. 622, 1927, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.
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