CORPORATIONS 947

An. Code, 1924, sec. 360. 1912, sec. 424. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 12 (p. 354).

360. This sub-title shall apply to the transportation of passengers,
freight or property from one point to another within the State of Maryland,
and to any common carrier performing such service; and this sub-title shall
be so applicable and be so construed as to be free from conflict with those
provisions of the constitution of the United States and the laws in pur-
suance thereof relating to interstate commerce.

See sec 427.

This section referred to in construing secs. 294-310 of art. 56. Public Serv. Commn, v.
Williams, 167 Md. 330.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 361. 1920, ch. 677. 1931, ch. 485, sec. 361.

361. This sub-title shall apply to taxicabs used in the public transpor-
tation of passengers within the State of Maryland; and said taxicabs are
hereby classified as common carriers, and, as such, are hereby made sub-
ject to the jurisdiction and authority of the Public Service Commission of
Maryland, and to all the provisions of Article 23 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, title "Corporations," sub-title "Public Service Commis-
sion," relating to common carriers, and to all other provisions of the laws
of the State of Maryland relating to common carriers so far as the pro-
vision of said Article, title and sub-title, and of said other provisions of
said laws of the State of Maryland may be reasonably applicable to
taxicabs. The term "taxicab" shall embrace any motor vehicle for hire,
designed to carry seven persons or less, including driver, operated upon
any public street or highway in this State, or, on call or demand, accepting
or soliciting passengers indiscriminately for transportation for hire be-
tween such points along public streets or highways in this State, as may be
directed by the passenger or passengers so being transported; provided
that nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to include as a taxicab, a
motor vehicle operated, with the approval of the Public Service Commis-
sion, on fixed routes and schedules.

Petition filed for referendum vote on ch. 485, acts of 1931, was held insufficient on
the ground that the signatures attached thereto did not comply with constitutional re-
quirements. Sun Cab Co. v. Cloud, 162 Md. 419.

This section referred to in construing secs. 294-310 of art. 56. Pub. Serv. Commn, v.
Williams, 167 Md. 330.

See notes to sec. 381.

This section referred to in construing art. 56, sec. 249—see notes thereto. This section
was passed a few months after the decision in Towers v. Wildason, 135 Md. 677. Golds-
worthy v. Public Service Com., 141 Md. 682.

Cited in connection with Art. 56, Sec. 182. See notes thereunder. Yellow Cab Co. v.
Bradin, 172 Md. 397.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 361A. 1931, ch. 485, sec. 361A. :

362. No person, association or corporation shall, on or after January
1, 1932, operate a taxicab or taxicabs in any incorporated city or town in
the State of Maryland, having a population of more than fifty thousand
persons, or between points within such city or town and points in prox-
imity thereto, until such person, association or corporation, shall have
obtained a permit from the Public Service Commission to operate such
taxicab or each of such taxicabs. Such permit shall be issued only after
written application for the same shall have been made to the Commission;
and it shall be the duty of the Commission, upon such application, to
investigate the expediency of granting such permit, the number of taxi-
cabs to be used, and the rate to be charged, and, if, in the judgment of the
Commission, it is deemed best for the public welfare and convenience