1142 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 596

251A. The license fees prescribed by Section 251 shall
not be applicable to any motor vehicle operated exclusively
within the corporate limits of any municipality of this
State or within any territory under the jurisdiction of the
Federal Government, or to any motor vehicle when such
vehicle is operated exclusively on a route, one fixed
terminus of which is within the corporate limits of any
municipality of this State or of any territory under the
jurisdiction of the Federal Government and the other fixed
terminus of said route is not more than ten miles from the
corporate limits of any such municipality or of any such
territory. For each such motor vehicle, including reserve
and substitute vehicles, an annual fee shall be paid to the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for certificates of regis-
tration issued by him, of Four Dollars ($4. 00) per each
passenger seat, and no other additional fees, licenses or
tax, shall be charged by the State or any county or mu-
nicipal subdivision of the State, except the property tax
and gasoline tax in respect to such vehicles and their oper-
ation. For each such motor vehicle, the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles shall furnish a distinctive marker or tag,
which marker or tag shall be carried and displayed in such
manner as directed by the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles.

252. All motor vehicles, except when used exclusively
for the transportation of pupils to and from public and/or
private schools, operating for hire intra-state over the im-
proved roads and streets of this State or of any county or
municipality thereof on regular schedules or between fixed
termini, including those used by corporations, groups of
individuals and associations engaged in the transportation
of their stockholders, shareholders, or members, whether
on the co-operative plan or otherwise, shall be subject to
the provisions of this sub-title, except the special class of
motor vehicles provided for in Sections 252A, 252B, 252C,
252D, 252E and 252F of said Article, and except that the
public duties of a common carrier shall not thereby be
imposed on the owner of any such vehicle not actually en-
gaged in public transportation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That two new sec-
tions be and the same are hereby added to Article 56 of
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Li-
censes", sub-title "Public Passenger Motor Vehicles", to
be known as Sections 255A and 255B, to follow immedi-
ately after Section 255, and to read as follows: