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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 term "regular schedule" shall be given a liberal construction and
shall include the carriage of freight or merchandise of at least one single
trip per week of four consecutive weeks between fixed termini, and if
freight or merchandise is carried by any motor vehicle on the average of at
least one single trip each week between fixed termini, such operation shall
constitute a regular schedule.

The term "fixed termini" shall be given a liberal construction and shall
include any city, town, village, state line, county line, or city line or any
other geographical point marking the beginning or the end of a carriage of
goods in the State of Maryland, provided each termini is at least five miles
apart.

The term "Commercial Motor Vehicles" shall include (a) all motor
vehicles designed and used for carrying freight or merchandise or (b) all
motor vehicles used for carrying freight or merchandise in the further-
ance of any commercial enterprise.

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have authority, in disputed
oases, 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.

This section referred to in construing art. 75, sec. 28, sub-sec. 109. Penna.
R. R. Co. v. Lord, 159 Md. 528.

Public Motor Vehicles Exempted.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 174. 1912, sec. 135. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 135.

1935, ch. 93.

174. All motor vehicles owned and used by the State or any City,
Town, Village or County of this State and all motor vehicles owned by
any incorporated volunteer fire company, incorporated in this State and
used for fire-fighting or ambulance purposes are hereby exempted from the
provisions of this sub-title requiring the payment of registration fees,
but all such vehicles shall display identification markers approved by the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

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Commissioner of Motor Vehicles—Appointment of.

175.

See notes to sec. 173.