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an operator's license, as hereinbefore provided, renewable at
the end of one year from the date of issue, and shall pay there-
for the sum of three dollars ($3. 00) per year.

Duplicate licenses shall be supplied by the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles for fifty cents each in case where he is satisfied
the original has been lost. The Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles shall have authority, in disputed cases, to determine
the kind of license to which any applicant may be entitled.

SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF OPERATOR'S

LICENSE.

145. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may after due
hearing, upon not less than three days' notice in writing, said
notice to be sent by registered letter to the address given by the
operator when applying for his license certificate, which shall
constitute sufficient form of notice, suspend or revoke the
operator's license issued to any person under section 143 of
this sub-title for any cause which he may deem sufficient; but
every applicant for an operator's license whose application
shall be refused by said Commissioner, and every licensee whose
operator's license shall be suspended or revoked by said Com-
missioner, may appeal to the Circuit Court of the County in
which the licensee may live, or to the City Court of Baltimore
City if the licensee live there. The decision of the said
Court to be final, and such appeal not to operate as a stay
of such order or decision by the Commissioner. Subject to the
same conditions as to notice and appeal, the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles shall have power and authority to refuse, re-
voke or suspend the markers and certificate of registration of
any motor vehicle which is so constructed as to be, when in
operation, a menace to the safety of its occupants, or to the
public, or is so constructed or operated as to cause unreasonable
damage to the public highways.

Whenever any person licensed to operate a motor vehicle
upon the highways of this State shall have been convicted of
any violation of any of the provisions of this sub-title, the