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heading "Fire Protection", said new sections to be known
as Sections 421, 422, 422A, 422B, 422C and 422D, and to
follow immediately after Section 420 of said Article, to
regulate parking near fire hydrants and fire engine houses
or near certain intersections, or on sidewalks in Anne
Arundel County, and to prohibit driving across fire hose in
certain cases in Anne Arundel County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That six new sections be and they are hereby added
to Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Anne Arundel County, sub-title "Roads",
to be under sub-heading "Fire Protection", said new sections
to be known as Sections 421, 422, 422A, 422B, 422C and 422D,
to follow immediately after Section 420 of said Article, and to
read as follows:

421. No vehicle shall be permitted to stand within fifteen
(15) feet of any fire plug or fire hydrant in Anne Arundel
County unless such vehicle be in actual charge of a person
capable of running or operating the same.

422. No vehicle shall be permitted to stand longer than
actually necessary to take on or discharge passengers, baggage,
merchandise or freight, in front of or opposite to any fire en-
gine house in Anne Arundel County or within fifteen (15) feet
of either side of any such fire engine house.

422A. No person shall drive any vehicle over or across,
any hose in use or about to be used in any street, lane, alley,
avenue, road or public place in Anne Arundel County by any
Fire Department for extinguishing any fire that may occur
therein; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to
drivers of trucks carrying the United States mail, or to drivers,
of physicians' vehicles, or to drivers of ambulances, when con-
veying any injured person from the scene of any accident by
which persons may have been injured, or any patient to the
hospital, or when proceeding to the scene of any such accident,
or to the drivers of any vehicles who may be permitted to drive
over or across such hose by the officer in command of the Fire
Department when operating at any such fire and under Ms
direction.

422B. No vehicle shall be permitted to stand within twenty
feet of the intersection of any streets, State highways or State-
aided or County highways in any town or village in Anne
Arundel County, at which such parking restrictions are ordered
by the County Commissioners, for a period longer than shall
be necessary to take on or discharge passengers, baggage, mer-