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ment for a period not to exceed ninety days, or both fine and
imprisonment for the first offense.

(4) MUFFLERS. No driver or operator of any motor car,
taxicab, automobile, motor truck or motorcycle shall use any cut-
out, fitting or other apparatus or device which will allow the
exhaust gases from the engine of the motor vehicle to escape into
the atmosphere without first passing through a silencer, expan-
sion chamber or other contrivance suitable and sufficient for re-
ducing as far as may be reasonably practicable the noise which
would otherwise be caused by the escape of the said gases; pro-
vided that this regulation shall apply only to a motor vehicle
propelled by an internal combustion engine, and only within
the limits of cities, towns and villages in the State of Maryland.

(5) PENALTIES. Any person violating any of the provis-
ions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction subject to a fine of not less than five dol-
lars ($5. 00), nor more than fifty dollars ($50. 00) for the first
offense.

All the provisions of this section 148 shall apply both to the
operator of a motor vehicle and to the owner who causes or per-
mits such motor vehicle to be equipped or operated contrary to
any of such provisions.

SPEED OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

(1) GENERAL PROVISIONS.

149. No person shall operate a motor vehicle of any kind,
as defined in this sub-title, over any public highway of the
State recklessly or at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable
and proper, having regard to the width, traffic and use of the
highway, or so as to endanger the property and life or limb of
any person, or without due regard to wear upon said highway,
so as not unnecessarily or unreasonably to damage the same.

(2) SOLID TIRE MOTOR VEHICLES.

The maximum rate of speed for motor vehicles equipped
wholly or in part with solid tires which motor vehicles, includ-