802 ARTICLE 56.

April 30th and the full fee shall be charged therefor except when the
applicant engages in the business in any other month subsequent to May
1st when such license shall be issued from such month and a ratable sum
charged therefor.

1931, ch. 324, sec. 275.

275. Every application for license required by Section 274 of this
sub-title shall be made on a form to be furnished by the State Roads Com-
mission and shall state the full name and post office address of the appli-
cant, as well as other revelant information required by said State Roads
Commission during the consideration of any application for a license.
Every person, firm or corporation obtaining a license in pursuance of
Section 274 of this sub-title shall also obtain a permit and pay a fee there-
for for the use of the State for the erection, maintenance or use of each
billboard or other structure, sign, poster or other display advertising used,
or to be used as provided in Section 277 of this sub-title, provided the pro-
posed location of the said billboard or other structure, sign, poster or other
display advertising be outside the corporate limits of any incorporated city,
town or village and within five hundred (500) feet of a public highway of
the State of Maryland.

1931, ch. 324, sec. 276.

276. No person, firm or corporation not engaged in the business of
outdoor advertising for profit, shall, after the first day of June, 1931,
erect, or maintain outside the corporate limits of any city, town or village
and within five hundred (500) feet of a public highway of the State of
Maryland, any billboard or other structure or signs, posters or display
advertising of any kind whatsoever, without a permit for that purpose
from the State Roads Commission as provided in the following section of
this sub-title.

1931, ch. 324, sec. 277.

277. Every person, firm or corporation hereafter desiring to erect or
maintain billboards or other structures, signs, posters or display advertis-
ing of any kind whatsoever, outside of the corporate limits of any city,
town or village, and within five hundred (500) feet of a public highway
of the State of Maryland, shall file with the State Roads Commission the
following information, data and plats concerning and explaining the pro-
posed location of any such billboards, or other structures, signs, posters or
other display advertising:

(a) A statement signed by the applicant naming the county, election
district, and the approximate distance from the nearest town, village or
city where the billboards or other structures, signs, posters or other ad-
vertising displays are proposed to be placed and stating whether or not the
proposed location is within a district over which the Legislature has
granted to any board or body the power to create zoning areas and if said
proposed location be within any such district, the name of such district.