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from the rear when said vehicles are about to stop, which signals or de-
vices shall be employed whenever such bus is about to stop to take on or
discharge any child or children. All vehicles behind such bus shall stop
when the signal is get, at least ten feet behind the rear of such bus when
is¹ has stopped, and shall remain standing until the bus starts or the stop
signal is released. Any operator of a vehicle who fails to stop when such
bus stops, with the stop signal set, to take on or discharge children, or
otherwise violates the provisions hereof, when such bus actually halts for
the purpose of taking on or discharging children, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Five
Dollars ($5. 00) nor more than Fifty Dollars ($50. 00); provided, however,
that this section only apply to Montgomery, Talbot and Frederick Counties-
1931, ch. 428.

209B. Whenever any street or highway has been divided into clearly
marked lanes for traffic, drivers of vehicles shall obey the following regu-
lations:

(a) A vehicle shall normally be driven in the lane nearest the right hand
edge or curb of the highway when said lane is available for travel except
when overtaking another vehicle or in preparation for a left turn or as per-
mitted in subdivision (d).

(b) A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as is practicable entirely within
a single lane and shall not be moved from such lane until the driver has
first ascertained that such movement can be made with safety.

(c) Upon a highway which is divided into three lanes a vehicle shall not
be driven in the center lane except when overtaking, and passing another
vehicle or in preparation for a left turn or unless such center lane is at the
time allocated exclusively to traffic moving in the direction the vehicle is
proceeding and is signposted to give notice of such allocation.

(d) The State Roads Commission may designate right hand lanes for
slow moving traffic and inside lanes for traffic moving at the speed indi-
cated for the district under this section, and when such lanes are sign-
posted or marked to give notice of such designation a vehicle may be driven
in any lane allocated to traffic moving in the direction such vehicle is pro-
ceeding, but when traveling within such inside lanes vehicles shall be driven
at approximately the speed authorized in such lanes, and speed shall not
unnecessarily be decreased so as to block, hinder or retard traffic.

Any person operating any vehicle in a manner contrary to any of the
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction, subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5. 00) nor
more than fifty dollars ($50) for the first offense.

Traffic Regulations in Baltimore City.

210.

This section held unconstitutional and void under art. 11A of Md. Constitu-
tion. State v. Stewart, 152 Md. 420.

¹ Word "it" evidently intended.