ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1063

same number upon payment of a fee of one dollar ($1. 00)
where such motor vehicle is of less or equal horsepower or ton-
nage as that originally registered; or upon payment of a fee
of one dollar ($1. 00) and the difference between the fee orig-
inally paid and that due, in case the new motor vehicle be
properly registered in a higher class.

SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF OPERATOR'S LICENSE,
MARKERS AND REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE.

189. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, or any of his
assistants who may be designated by him for that purpose, 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 re-
voke the operator's license issued to any person under Section
186 of this sub-title for any cause which he may deem suffi-
cient; but every applicant for an operator's license whose appli-
cation shall be refused by said Commissioner, and every
licensee whose operator's license shall be suspended or revoked
by said Commissioner, may appeal to the Circuit Court of the
county in which the licensee may live, or to the Baltimore City
Court of Baltimore City if the licensee live there, the decision
of the said Court to be final, and such appeal to operate
as a stay of such order or decision by the Commissioner. Sub-
ject to the same conditions as to notice and appeal, the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles shall have power and authority to
refuse, revoke or suspend the markers and certificate of regis-
tration 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 un-
reasonable damage to the public highways, or whenever the
owner of any motor vehicle shall make or permit to be made
any use of the same without having complied with the licens-
ing provisions of thia and of every other law of this State, or
permit the use thereof by a person not entitled thereto.

Whenever any person licensed to operate a motor vehicle
upon the highways of this State has been convicted of any vio-
lation of any of the provisions of this sub-title, the Commis-
sioner may, in his discretion, suspend for such period as he
may deem necessary, or revoke the operator's license of such
person. No person shall for the period of three months from
the date of the revocation of his operator's license, be capable