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over any specified route, to investigate the expediency of granting said
permit; the number of motor vehicles to be used, and the rate to be charged,
and if, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, it is deemed
best for public welfare and convenience that said permit should be granted,
said Public Service Commission is hereby empowered and authorized to
grant such permit subject to such reasonable conditions and terms, and
for such duration of time, not exceeding the period of twenty years, as it
may deem advisable, provided, however, that permits to operate over the
streets of the City of Baltimore shall not be granted for periods in excess
of one year, except as hereinafter provided; and provided further, that
if the applicant is directly, or is a subsidiary of a company, engaged in
furnishing mass transportation in any incorporated municipality in the
State of Maryland, by means of electric trolley cars, and operates or desires
to operate motor vehicles, other than taxicabs, in connection with or as a
service supplementary to a service by trolley cars, the Public Service Com-
mission may grant such permits for a period not exceeding twenty-five
years, except that a permit may be granted for a longer period where appli-
cation is made for a permit to operate a motor vehicle or motor vehicles
in substitution for the whole or any part of an electric trolley car franchise,
easement or right-of-way originally granted by local authority or otherwise
acquired for a duration longer than twenty-five years, in which event,
upon the abandonment or surrender of the whole or any part of such
franchise, easement or right-of-way for the operation of electric trolley
cars, the Public Service Commission is authorized and empowered to
grant the permit or permits so applied for for the same duration as the fran-
chise, easement or right-of-way which, or any part of which, is so aban-
doned or surrendered; provided, however, that whenever a permit or per-
mits are so granted for a period or periods longer than one year, the service
rendered under such permit or permits may not be discontinued without
the consent of the Public Service Commission. But if said Public Service
Commission deems the granting of such permit prejudicial to the welfare
and convenience of the public, then the said Public Service Commission is
hereby empowered and authorized to refuse the granting of the same. The
said Public Service Commission of Maryland is further empowered and
authorized to make such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to
govern the control and operation of same, and enforce the same by such
penalties or forfeitures as it may prescribe, including the revocation of
the permit granted under the provisions of this sub-title.

The Public Service Commission having granted a bus company a permit to operate
busses between Baltimore and Eastern Shore points, via the Annapolis-Claiborne Ferry,
held that the court would not interfere on ground that operation of busses would
reduce revenues of W., B. & A. R. Co. Pub. Serv. Commn, v. Williams, 167 Md. 316.

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 sec. 293.

1933, ch. 596, sec. 255A.

305. Upon complaint filed with the Public Service Commission by
any carrier setting forth under affidavit that a permit granted such carrier
by the Commissioner has been, or is being infringed upon or violated, or
that any rights granted in any such permits are being exercised, or used
by some other carrier, or carriers, without a permit, or that such rights
are being subject to unrestricted or unregulated competition, or that the
route as set forth in the permit granted such complaining carrier is being