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to the penalties prescribed in Section 256 of this sub-title, and in the case
of a second conviction of any such owner having secured said special
license plates, in addition to the foregoing penalties, said special license
plates shall be revoked by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and no
new license plates shall be issued for a period of six months, and then, only
when said owner has secured a new Employee's Certificate of Convenience;
and any owner failing to carry the duplicate copy of said Certificate in his
car, as provided in the preceding section, shall, upon conviction before any
Magistrate as aforesaid, be fined Five ($5. 00) Dollars for. each offense.
When any such person is brought to trial before any Magistrate for the
violation of any of the provisions of Section 252-252F, after judgment of
said Magistrate is rendered, an appeal may be taken by the accused or by
the State within ten days from the date of said judgment, to the Circuit
Court for the County in which the case originated, or to the Criminal
Court of Baltimore City, if the case originated in said city; in which
event the case shall be transmitted to said Circuit or Criminal Court as a
Criminal appeal as is now provided by law.

1929, ch. 225, sec. 252F.

252F. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed to the extent of said inconsistency, but nothing herein shall be
construed to relieve any owner or operator of such motor vehicles as are
herein defined from any regulation otherwise imposed by law or lawful
authority.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 253. 1912, sec. 190. 1910, ch. 610, sec. 2. 1927, ch. 620, sec. 253.

253. Except as hereinafter provided, each and every such motor vehicle
so registered shall operate only on the route and schedule set forth in said
application during the year for which said license is issued. It shall be
the duty of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, upon the presentation of
a permit from the Public Service Commission of Maryland, authorizing
the motor vehicle owner to operate on a certain route, to furnish the motor
vehicle owner with a distinguishing plate or marker. No such motor
vehicle owner shall change said schedule or route of his motor vehicle
during any year for which a certificate has been issued, without a permit,
in writing, made in duplicate, from the Public Service Commission of
Maryland, a copy of which shall be sent to the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles before said schedule is changed, whereupon a proper readjust-
ment of charges shall be made upon the basis aforesaid. But nothing in
this sub-title shall be construed to prevent an owner or operator of such
regularly licensed vehicles from replacing in an emergency such vehicles
by a substitute vehicle in order to maintain the schedule approved as here-
in provided or in an emergency from operating, temporarily, reserve
vehicles on such routes and schedules, approved as aforesaid for the public
accommodation. In cases where certificates have been issued to such motor
vehicle owner for more than one route, all motor vehicles having the same
number of passenger seats including reserve or substitute vehicles, which