LICENSES 2401

vehicle or in preparation for a left turn or unless such center lane is at the
time allocated exclusively to traffic moving in the direction the vehicle is
proceeding and is signposted to give notice of such allocation.

(d) The State Roads Commission may designate right hand lanes for
slow moving traffic and inside lanes for traffic moving at the speed indi-
cated for the district under this section, and when such lanes are sign-
posted or marked to give notice of such designation a vehicle may be driven
in any lane allocated to traffic moving in the direction such vehicle is pro-
ceeding, but when traveling within such inside lanes vehicles shall be driven
at approximately the speed authorized in such lanes, and speed shall not
unnecessarily be decreased so as to block, hinder or retard traffic.

Any person operating any vehicle in a manner contrary to any of the
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction, subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor
more than fifty dollars ($50) for the first offense.

1939, ch. 190.

239. Whenever, at any street or road crossing, unless protected by a
traffic officer or a traffic light, any blind or partially blind pedestrian shall,
before attempting to cross, extend before him horizontally at arm's length a
cane of white color or white tipped with red, he shall thereupon be entitled
to the right of way at such crossing; and all vehicles at or approaching such
crossing shall immediately come to a full stop, leaving a clear lane through
which such person may pass and shall remain stationary until such person
has completed the crossing of such intersection. Any operator of a vehicle
who violates the provisions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than one dollar ($1.00) no
more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).

Any person who shall carry or use a cane in violation of the provisions
hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction,
be fined not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than Twenty-five Dol-
lars ($25.00) for the first offense.

PART VII.

Gasoline Tax.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 211. 1922, ch. 522, sec. 1. 1937, chs. 375 and 422.

240. The following words, terms and phrases in this sub-title are, for
the purposes hereof, defined as follows:

(a) "Motor Vehicles" shall mean and include all vehicles, engines, ma-
chines or mechanical contrivances which are propelled by internal com-
bustion engines or motors, upon the public highways.

(b) "Motor Vehicle fuel" means and includes gasoline, casing head or
natural gasoline, benzol, benzine, naphtha and any other liquid prepared,
advertised, offered for sale, sold for use as, or used for, the generation of
power for the propulsion of motor vehicles, including any product obtained
by blending together any one or more products of petroleum, with or with-
out other products, if the resultant product is capable of such use.

(c) The term "Dealer" is hereby defined as any person, firm or corpora-
tion (including the State of Maryland and any political subdivision
thereof), (1) making the first sale in this State of any motor vehicle fuel,