PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1573

CHAPTER 832.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 140-B
of Article 56 of the Code of 1904 of the Public General Laws
of Maryland, title "Licenses," sub-title "Motor Vehicles."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 140-B of Article 56 of the Code of 1904 of
the Public General Laws of Maryland, title '' Licenses,'' sub-title
"Motor Vehicles," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

140-B. No person shall operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle
over any public highway of this 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 or life or limb of any person, or without due regard
to wear upon said highways, so as not unnecessarily or unreason-
ably to damage the same. The maximum rate of speed for
motor vehicles used only for the transportation of merchandise,
which motor vehicles, including the weight of the truck and
the load thereon, weigh in excess of four tons, and not in
excess of eight tons, shall be fifteen miles an hour. The max-
imum rate of speed for motor vehicles used only for the trans-
portation of merchandise, which motor vehicles, including the
Aveight of the truck and the load thereon, weigh in excess of
eight tons, shall be twelve miles an hour. The maximum rate
of speed of all traction engines or other iron tired engines, shall
be six miles an hour. No motor vehicle in excess of ninety
inches in width, except traction engines, shall be operated on
any highway of this State, and no traction engine in excess
of one hundred inches in width shall be operated on any such
highway, nor shall any motor vehicle be so operated in which
the limit of load per inch, in width of tire shall exceed eight
hundred pounds, without the special permission of the State
Roads Commission in the case of a road under its jurisdiction,
or the permission of the city authorities in the case of a city
street, or the permission of the County authorities in the case
of a County highway, and no motor vehicles, of which the
weight of the truck and the load combined, exceeds fourteen
tons, shall be operated on any highway in this State. No speed
contest or contests shall be, under any circumstances, allowed
or take place upon any highway of this State. If the rate of
speed of a motor vehicle or motorcycle, operated upon any
public highway of this State exceeds twelve miles per hour in