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fifty-five (55) feet and said hand brake shall be adequate to
hold such vehicle or vehicles stationary on any grade upon
which operated.

(i) All braking distances specified in this section shall
apply to all vehicles mentioned, whether such vehicles are not
loaded or are loaded to the maximum capacity permitted
under this Article.

(j) All brakes shall be maintained in good working order
and shall be so adjusted as to operate as equally as practicable
with respect to the wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle.

(2B) The State Roads Commission with respect to high-
ways under its jurisdiction may by resolution prohibit the
operation of vehicles upon any such highway or impose restric-
tions as to the weight of vehicles to be operated upon any such
highway, for a total period of not to exceed 90 days in any one
calendar year, whenever any said highway by reason of
deterioration, rain, snow, or other climatic conditions will be
seriously damaged or destroyed unless the use of vehicles
thereon is prohibited or the permissible weights thereof
reduced.

The State Roads Commission enacting any such resolution
shall erect or cause to be erected and maintained signs desig-
nating the provisions of the ordinance or resolution at each end
of that portion of any highway affected thereby, and the
resolution shall not be effective unless and until such signs are
erected and maintained.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved April 15, 1937.

CHAPTER 265.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 123
of Article 48A. of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "Insurance", sub-title "Mutual Insurance Com-
panies", relating to conditions for the admission of foreign
mutual insurance companies.