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such auxiliary light or lights shall be subject to all the restric-
tions of this section regarding direction of the beam.

The State Board of Motor Vehicle Headlight Inspection is
hereby created. Said Board shall consist of the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles, the Marshal of Police of Baltimore City
and the Secretary of the Automobile Club of Maryland. The
members of said Board shall serve without pay and shall hold
meetings at such times and places as in their judgment may
be necessary. The said Board shall have power to adopt rea-
sonable rules and regulations for the enforcement of this Act.

No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon any highway
in this State equipped with an electric bulb or other lighting
device of a greater rated capacity than thirty-two candle power,
no matter how the same may be shaded, covered or obscured.
Any person who shall turn all or any of his motor vehicle lights
off for the purpose of avoiding arrest or identification shall be
subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) or impris-
onment for a period not exceeding 90 days, or both fine and
imprisonment.

All the provisions of this section 148 shall apply both to the
operator of a motor vehicle and to the owner who causes or
knowingly permits such motor vehicle to be equipped or oper-
ated contrary to any of such provisions.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of
this Act are intended to be state-wide in their effect, and no
city, county or other municipal sub-division of the State shall
have the right to make or enforce any local ordinance or regu-
lation which shall change, alter or affect the requirements
thereof, and that all acts and parts of acts, laws and parts of
laws, ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith
or contrary hereto be and the same are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. 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 safety, and being passed upon
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 June 27th, 1917.