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and appeal shall be applicable in all cases where registration is refused or
revoked under the terms of this section.

This section referred to in holding Ch. 426 of 1927 invalid. Quenstedt v. Wilson, 173
Md. 21.

Non-Resident Owners and Operators.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 190. 1912, sec. 146. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 146.

1920, ch. 506, sec. 146. 1927, ch. 520, sec. 190. 1933, ch. 511.

1935, ch. 198. 1939, ch. 768.

187. Any person or operator not a resident of this State, who shall
have complied with the laws of the State in which he resides, requiring
the registration of motor vehicles and licensing of operators thereof, and
the display of identification or registration numbers on such vehicles, and
who shall cause the identification number of such State, in accordance
with the laws thereof and none other, together with the initial letter or
letters of said State to be displayed on his motor vehicle as in this sub-.
title provided, while used or operated upon the public highways of this
State, may use the highways of this State without obtaining a registration
certificate or operator's license from the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
as hereinbefore prescribed; provided the State of which he is a resident
and the registration certificate which he displays shall extend the same
privilege to residents of this State; and provided, further, that motor
vehicles, registered under the laws of this State, or registered and identified
as required by the provisions of this section, may be operated by a non-
resident of the State if such non-resident is properly licensed to operate
motor vehicles under the laws of the State in which an examination as to
qualification to operate motor vehicles is required, and in which State resi-
dents of Maryland are given the same privilege; and provided, further,
that the privilege to operate motor vehicles in Maryland granted non-resi-
dents under the provisions of this section may be refused, suspended or
revoked by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for any cause for which
he is authorized to refuse, suspend or revoke the license of any resident
of Maryland; and provided, further, that if any non-resident be con-
victed before any Justice of the Peace, Committing Magistrate or Police
Justice of violating any provision of this sub-title, he shall thereafter be sub-
ject to and required to comply with all the provisions of this sub-title re-
lating to the registration of motor vehicles and the licensing of operators
thereof; and the Governor of this State is hereby authorized and empow-
ered to confer and advise with the proper officers and legislative bodies of
other States of the Union, and enter into reciprocal agreements under which
the registration of motor vehicles owned by the residents of this State will
be recognized by such other States, and he is further authorized and em-
powered from time to time to grant to residents of other States the privilege
of using the roads of this State as in this section provided in return for
similar privileges granted residents of this State by such other States.

The aforegoing exemption of non-residents shall not apply to operators
of motor vehicles or motorcycles who are resident of States which do not
require the display of identification markers on the same, nor shall it apply
to non-residents of this State who have temporary residences in this State
for periods in excess of three months in any year, or to non-residents,
engaged in the business of transporting persons or property for hire,
wholly or partly upon or over the public highways of this State, over fixed
routes or between fixed termini. Officers, men, and other employees of the