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1933, ch. 596, sec. 251A.

251A. The license fees prescribed by Section 251 shall not be appli-
cable to any motor vehicle operated exclusively within the corporate limits
of any municipality of this State or within any territory under the juris-
diction of the Federal Government, or to any motor vehicle when such
vehicle is operated exclusively on a route, one fixed terminus of which is
within the corporate limits of any municipality of this State or of any
territory under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government and the other
fixed terminus of said route is not more than ten miles from the corporate
limits of any such municipality or of any such territory. For each such
motor vehicle, including reserve and substitute vehicles, an annual fee
shall be paid to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for certificates of
registration issued by him, of Four Dollars ($4. 00) per each passenger
seat, and no other additional fees, licenses or tax, shall be charged by the
State or any county or municipal subdivision of the State, except the
property tax and gasoline tax in respect to such vehicles and their opera-
tion. For each such motor vehicle, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles:
shall furnish a distinctive marker or tag, which marker or tag shall be
carried and displayed in such manner as directed by the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 252. 1924, ch. 291, sec. 189A. 1927, ch. 620, sec. 252.
1929, ch. 225, sec. 252. 1933, ch. 596, sec. 252.

252. ' All motor vehicles, except when used exclusively for the trans-
portation of pupils to and from public and/or private schools, operating
for hire intra-State over the improved roads and streets of this State or of
any county or municipality thereof on regular schedules or between fixed
termini, including those used by corporations, groups of individuals and
associations engaged in the transportation of their stockholders, share-
holders, or members, whether on the co-operative plan or otherwise, shall
be subject to the provisions of this sub-title, except the special class of
motor vehicles provided for in Sections 252A, 252B, 252C, 252D, 252E
and 252F of this Article, and except that the public duties of a common
carrier shall not thereby be imposed on the owner of any such vehicle not
actually engaged in public transportation.
See notes to secs. 251 and 255.

1929, ch. 225, sec. 252A.

252A. The Public Service Commission of Maryland shall issue an
Employee's Certificate of Convenience in duplicate to any employee in
this State who is the owner of a pleasure passenger vehicle, when it appears
that the employees he proposes to transport for hire do not reside at points
reasonably convenient to any line of public transportation, or -when it
appears that said employees are not furnished reasonably adequate trans-
portation service to and from their places of employment by any trans-
portation line, and said Public Service Commission shall have the author-
ity to require each applicant for such Employee's Certificate of Con-