2414 ARTICLE 56

Garages.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 228. 1912, sec. 166. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 166. 1920, ch. 294.
1931, ch. 535. 1939, ch. 674.

264. No person, firm, company or corporation, resident or non-resi-
dent, in this State shall keep a garage or open-air garage for the hire,
storage or sale of automobiles until they shall first have obtained a license
therefor, and shall pay an annual license fee based upon the square foot
area of each floor for each garage, or in the case of an open-air garage,
upon the square foot area of the space used for garage purposes as herein
provided, viz:

Garage containing not more than 1600 square feet............ $15.00

Those containing more than 1600 square feet, and not more
than 2000 square feet.................................... 20.00

Those containing more than 2000 square feet, and not more ..
than 3000 square feet...................................... 30.00

Those containing more than 3000 square feet, and not more
than 4000 square feet........................................ 55.00

Those containing more than 4000 square feet, and not more
than 5000 square feet....................................... 75.00

Those containing more than 5000 square feet, and not more
than 7500 square feet.................................... 125.00

Those containing more than 7500 square feet, and not more
than 10,000 square feet...................................... 200.00

For every additional 1000 square feet or fractional part thereof the sum
of $10.00 additional.

A garage, or open-air garage, as used within the terms, of this section
shall mean a place of storage for hire or a place where is kept for hire any
automobile, locomobile, or any vehicle of any kind the motive power of
which shall be electricity, steam, gas, gasoline or any other motive power
except animals and aircraft, whether such automobile, locomobile or vehicle
is kept therein permanently or temporarily, but wherever such garage has
included within the building a machine shop, which machine shop is defi-
nitely defined by permanent partitions in the building, the space occupied
by the same shall be exempted from taxation under this section.

In computing the license fees according to the provisions of this sec-
tion, there shall be deducted from the total floor space of such garages
a space fifteen feet wide and extending the entire length or depth of the
garage, in all cases where a space is required by law or any official regula-
tion to be kept open. In case of garages having more than one floor, a
similar deduction shall be made for each floor. There shall be a deduction
from the total space contained in open-air garages in computing the tax
on open-air garages, which may be occupied over their entire area, pro-
vided that nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to repeal any local
ordinance enacted for the public safety.

Automobile sales room is not a garage within restrictive covenant prohibiting public
garage. Legum v. Carlin, 168 Md. 191.

Sales room for motor vehicles, not used for hire or storage for hire, not garage
within meaning of this section. Construction of act in body of act. Title sufficient.
Motor Co. v. State, 147 Md. 234.