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registered letter to the address given by the operator when applying for
his license certificate, which shall constitute sufficient form of notice, sus-
pend or revoke the operator's license issued to any person under Section
186 of this sub-title for any cause which he may deem sufficient; but every
applicant for an operator's license whose application shall be refused by
said Commissioner, and every licensee whose operator's license shall be
suspended or revoked by said Commissioner, may appeal to the Circuit
Court of the county in which the licensee may live, or to the Baltimore City
Court of Baltimore City if the licensee live there, the decision of the said
Court to be final, and such appeal to operate as a stay of such order or deci-
sion by the Commissioner. Subject to the same conditions as to notice and
appeal, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have power and author-
ity to refuse, revoke or suspend the markers and certificate of registration
of any motor vehicle which is so constructed as to be, when in operation, a
menace to the safety of its occupants, or to the public, or is so constructed
or operated as to cause unreasonable damage to the public highways, or
whenever the owner of any motor vehicle shall make or permit to be made
any use of the same without having complied with the licensing provisions,
of this and of every other law of this State, or permit the use thereof by a
person not entitled thereto.

Whenever any person licensed to operate a motor vehicle upon the high-
ways of this State has been convicted of any violation of any of the provi-
sions of this sub-title, the Commissioner may, in his discretion, suspend for
such period as he may deem necessary, or revoke the operator's license of
such person. No person shall for the period of three months from the date
of the revocation of his operator's license, be capable of receiving a new-
operator's license, nor thereafter except in the discretion of the Commis-
sioner.

Any person whose license to operate a motor vehicle in this State has;
been refused, suspended or revoked as aforesaid, and who shall operate a
motor vehicle, or who shall operate a motor vehicle the registration of
which has been refused, suspended or revoked as aforesaid, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars ($100. 00) nor more than one thousand dollars
($1, 000. 00), or to imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more
than one year, or to both fine and imprisonment. The provisions of this
section shall apply to the operator and to the owner who causes or permits
his motor vehicle to be operated in violation of this section.

1929, ch. 257.

189A. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may require the inspection:
of any motor vehicle or trailer to determine whether or not it is unsafe
or improperly equipped or otherwise unfit to be operated. Such inspec-
tion shall be made at such times and in such manner as the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles may specify. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
may authorize properly qualified persons to make inspections, without