794 ARTICLE 56.

Seasonal permits may be granted for a portion of the year, if, in the
judgment of the Public Service Commission, the granting thereof is
deemed essential to the public welfare and convenience, and routes may
be changed or abandoned, whenever, in the opinion of the Public Service
Commission, the welfare and convenience of the public will not be preju-
diced thereby.

In the event any such motor vehicle owner shall fail to report any infor-
mation, as above provided, or shall change or abandon a route or reduce
a schedule, without first obtaining the permission of the Public Service
Commission, or shall operate with greater frequency than prescribed by
his approved schedule, where the privilege so to do has been denied or
limited, the Public Service Commission may, after due hearing, upon not
less than three days' notice in writing, to be sent by registered letter to
the address given by the motor vehicle owner when applying for his per-
mit, revoke or suspend all permits issued to such motor vehicle owner under
the provisions of this sub-title, and refuse thereafter to issue such permits
to said motor vehicle owner.

Upon the suspension or revocation of a permit by the Public Service
Commission, all certificates of registration issued to such motor vehicle
owner by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall thereupon be likewise
suspended or revoked.

The license, or registration fees, charged under this sub-title, as above
provided, shall be on the basis of the entire year, but may be issued on or
after the first day of April, July, and October, in any year for the remain-
der of the year expiring on the 31st day of December, in which event,
three-quarters of the yearly fee, or one-half of the yearly fee, or one-
quarter of the yearly fee, shall be paid.

No portion of the license or registration fee paid as aforesaid will be
refunded for any part of the year during which said license is not used
except that in the case of seasonal permits, or in the case of abandoned
routes, a refund shall be allowed for any quarter, but no part of any
quarter, for which a seasonal permit has not been used, or a license has
been abandoned.

See notes to sec. 258.

An. Code, 1924. sec. 262. 1912, sec. 198. 1916, ch. 714, sec. 4.

262. It shall be the duty of the Public Service Commission of Mary-
land, upon the application of any motor vehicle owner for a permit to
operate any motor vehicle for the public transportation of merchandise or
freight over any specified route, to investigate the feasibility of granting
said permit, the number of motor vehicles to be used, the rate to be charged,
and if, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission it is deemed
best for public welfare and convenience that said permit should be granted,
said Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and authorized to
grant such permit, but if said Public Service Commission deems the grant-
ing of such permit prejudicial to the welfare and convenience of the public,
then the said Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and au-