ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1131

CHAPTER 555.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Licenses, " sub-
title "Motor Vehicles, " sub-heading "Rules of the Road, " to
be known as Section 209-A, to follow immediately after
Section 209 of said Article, requiring vehicles in, Talbot
County to stop behind school busses stopping to take on or
discharge children, and requiring equipment of such busses
with stop signal devices.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and it is hereby added to
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition),
title "Licenses, " sub-title "Motor Vehicles, " sub-heading "Rules
of the Road, " to be known as Section 209-A, to follow imme-
diately after Section 209 of said Article, and to read as follows:

209-A. All school busses shall be equipped with signals or
devices to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
showing from the rear when said vehicles are about to stop,
which signals or devices shall be employed whenever such bus
is about to stop to take on or discharge any child or children.
All vehicles behind such bus shall stop when the stop signal is
set, at least ten feet behind the rear of such bus when it has
stopped, and shall remain standing until the bus starts or the
stop signal is released. Any operator of a vehicle who fails to
stop when such bus stops, with the stop signal set, to take on or
discharge children, or otherwise violates the provisions hereof,
when such bus actually halts for the purpose of taking on or
discharging children, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars
($5. 00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50. 00); provided, how-
ever, that this section shall only apply to Talbot County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect September 1, 1927.

Approved April 26, 1927.

CHAPTER 556.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 5 of the Public Local-
Laws of Maryland (1888 Edition), title "Calvert County, "
to be under sub-title "Orphans' Court, " to be known as
Section 98-A and to follow immediately after Section 98