ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1123
CHAPTER 590.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
219 of Article 56 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Maryland
(1929 Supplement), title "Licenses, " sub-title "Motor
Vehicles, " sub-head "Gasoline Tax. "

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 591.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 56 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924, title "Licenses",
as amended, with a new sub-title to be designated "In-
surance for Commercial Motor Vehicles" and said new
section to be known as Section 187R and to follow im-
mediately after Section 187Q of said Article, providing
that owners of commercial motor vehicles using the
highways of this State in interstate or intrastate com-
merce for hire shall be required to secure a bond or in-
surance policy protecting the public from damages
caused by the operation in this State of said motor ve-
hicles, and to provide penalties for the violation hereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be added to Article 56 of the
Code of Public General Laws of 1924, title "Licenses", as
amended, with a new sub-title to be designated "Insurance
for Commercial Motor Vehicles", and said new section to
be known as Section 187R and to follow immediately after
Section 187Q of said Article, and to read as follows:

INSURANCE FOR COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES.

SEC. 187R (a) The provisions of this Section shall
apply to any owner of a commercial motor vehicle, his, her
or its officers, agents, servants or employees, engaged in
the transportation of passengers or property in interstate
or intrastate commerce on the public highways, streets and
roads within the territorial limits of the State of Maryland.
The term "commercial motor vehicle" shall include all mo-
tor vehicles, including semi-trailers and trailers, designed,
constructed or intended to be propelled or drawn by any
power other than muscular power, except such vehicles as
run only upon rails or tracks, used or to be used in the