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such motor vehicle, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall furnish a
distinctive marker or tag, which marker or tag shall be carried and dis-
played in such manner as directed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 252. 1924, ch. 291, sec. 189A. 1927, ch. 620, sec. 252.
1929, ch. 225, sec. 252. 1933, ch. 596, sec. 252.

295. All motor vehicles, except when used exclusively for the trans-
portation of pupils to and from public and/or private schools, operating
for hire intra-State over the improved roads and streets of this State or of
any county or municipality thereof on regular schedules or between fixed
termini, including those used by corporations, groups of individuals and
associations engaged in the transportation of their stockholders, share-
holders, or members, whether on the co-operative plan or otherwise, shall
be subject to the provisions of this sub-title, except the special class of
motor vehicles provided for in Sections 296, 297, 298, 299, 300 and 301
of this Article, and except that the public duties of a common carrier
shall not thereby be imposed on the owner of any such vehicle not actually
engaged in public transportation.

Where person hauls laborers to WPA project for hire, held that he must comply
with secs. 293, 295 and 304. P. S. C. v. Lichtenberg, Daily Record, Mar. 13, 1939.

See notes to secs. 293 and 304.

1929, ch. 225, sec. 252A.

296. The Public Service Commission of Maryland shall issue an Em-
ployee's Certificate of Convenience in duplicate to any employee in this
State who is the owner of a pleasure passenger vehicle, when it appears
that the employees he proposes to transport for hire do not reside at points
reasonably convenient to any line of public transportation, or when it
appears that said employees are not furnished reasonably adequate trans-
portation service to and from their places of employment by any trans-
portation line, and said Public Service Commission shall have the author-
ity to require each applicant for such Employee's Certificate of Con-
venience to file an application, setting forth his name, address, place of
employment, and the names, addresses and place of employment of all
employees whom he proposes to transport to and from their work, and a
statement showing facts which bring said employees within the purview
of this section. Said application shall be made on forms prepared and
furnished free by the Public Service Commission and the statements con-
tained in said application shall be supported by the affidavit of the applicant.

1929, ch. 225, sec. 252B.

297. Whenever any Employee's Certificate of Convenience provided
for in the aforegoing section has been issued, the holder of said Certificate
may, by filing one of the duplicate copies of said Certificate, apply to the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for special license plates to be provided
by said Commissioner, and upon the issuance of said special license plates
and their display on said car, said owner shall be entitled to transport for
hire to and from their common place of employment such fellow-employees
as may be designated in said Certificate, but said special license plates and
certificate shall not authorize said owner to transport such designated
employees for hire anywhere except to and from their common place of
employment, nor shall it authorize him to transport anyone for hire not
designated in said Certificate.