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"safety zone" shall include all parts of the public highways
or private rights of way which are elevated above the
travelled roadbed, or set apart therefrom for the exclusive
use of pedestrians or street car passengers and which are
guarded or protected against vehicular travel by posts,
plantings, curbing or otherwise, or which are appropri-
ately marked or designated as safety zones by duly con-
stituted State or municipal authorities. Whenever refer-
ence is made in this sub-title to a motor vehicle equipped
with six wheels it shall be construed to mean a motor ve-
hicle with not more than two wheels on any axle and with
all three wheels on each side of the motor vehicle approxi-
mately in line.

The term "regular schedule" shall be given a liberal con-
struction and shall include the carriage of freight or
merchandise of at least one single trip per week for four
consecutive weeks between fixed termini, and if freight or
merchandise is carried by any motor vehicle on the average
of at least one single trip each week between fixed termini,
such operation shall constitute a regular schedule.

The term "fixed termini" shall be given a liberal con-
struction and shall include any city, town, village, state
line, county line, or city line or any other geographical point
marking the beginning or the end of a carriage of goods
in the State of Maryland, provided each termini is at least
five miles apart.

The term "Commercial Motor Vehicles" shall include (a)
all motor vehicles designed and used for carrying freight
or merchandise or (b) all motor vehicles used for carrying
freight or merchandise in the furtherance of any com-
mercial enterprise.

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have author-
ity, in disputed cases, to determine the extent of the ap-
plicability of the definitions herein contained.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on January 1, 1934.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Regents
of the University of Maryland to grant, and convey unto
The Eastern Shore Public Service Company of Mary-