356 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 194

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 209A of Article 56 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Licenses", sub-title
"Motor Vehicles", sub-heading "Rules of the Road", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read as
follows:

209A. All school buses on the rear thereof shall have the
word "school bus" painted or printed in large letters and shall
be equipped with signals or devices to be prescribed by the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles showing from the rear when
said vehicles are about to stop, which signals or devices shall
be employed whenever such bus is about to stop to take on or
discharge any child or children. All vehicles behind such bus
shall stop when the signal is set, at least ten feet behind the
rear of such bus when it has stopped, and shall remain
standing until the bus starts or the stop signal is released.
Any operator of a vehicle who fails to stop when such bus
stops, with the stop signal set, to take on or discharge children,
or otherwise violates the provisions hereof, when such bus
actually halts for the purpose of taking on or discharging chil-
dren, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon
conviction, be fined not less than Five Dollars ($5. 00) nor
more than Fifty Dollars ($50. 00); provided, however, that this
section only apply to Carroll, Wicomico, Charles, Washington,
Howard, Montgomery, Talbot and Frederick Counties.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1, 1937.

Approved May 18, 1937.

CHAPTER 194.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 251A
of Article 56 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "Licenses, " sub-title "Public Passenger Motor
Vehicles, " as the same was enacted by Chapter 596 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland at its regular
1933 Session; extending the distance of a fixed terminus
from ten to sixteen miles from the corporate limits of a
municipality or territory under the jurisdiction of the Fed-
eral Government.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 251A of Article 56 of the Code of Public