ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1023

subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00), or
imprisonment 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 motor cycle shall use any
cutout, fitting or other apparatus or device which will allow
the 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
reducing as far as may be reasonably practicable the noise
which would otherwise be caused by the escape of the said
gases; provided 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.

(4A) Emblems. It shall be unlawful for any person to
display upon a motor vehicle the insignia or emblem of any
motor vehicle club or similar organization, unless he shall be
entitled to use the same under the constitution, by-laws, rules
or regulations of such club or organization.

(5) Penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions
of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
except in other cases in this section otherwise provided for,
upon conviction subject to a fine of not less than five dollars
($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first
offense, provided, however, that in the event approved lenses
or bulbs are used, and, due to improper adjustment, they
do not comply with all the provisions of this section, no
penalty shall be imposed for the first offense.

All the provisions of this Section 148, including the sev-
eral sub-sections thereof, shall apply both to the operator of
a motor vehicle and to the owner or person in control thereof
who causes or permits such motor vehicle to be equipped or
operated contrary to any of such provisions.

SPEED OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.

149. (1) 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 reason-
able and proper, having regard to the width, traffic and use