ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 619

private schools, operating for hire over the improved roads and
streets of this State or of any County or municipality thereof
on regular schedules or between fixed termini, including those
used by corporations, groups of individuals and associations en-
gaged in the transportation of their stockholders, shareholders or
members, whether on the cooperative plan or otherwise, shall
be subject to the provisions of this sub-title, except the special
class of motor vehicles provided for in the five following sec-
tions, and except that the public duties of a common carrier
shall not thereby be imposed on the owner of any such vehicles
not actually engaged in public transportation.

Section 252A. The Public Service Commission of Maryland
shall issue an Employee's Certificate of Convenience in dupli-
cate to any employee in this State who is the owner of a pleas-
ure passenger vehicle, when it appears that the employees he
proposes to transport for hire do not reside at points reason-
ably convenient to any line of public transportation, or when
it appears that said employees are not furnished reasonably
adequate transportation service to and from their places of em-
ployment by any transportation line, and said Public Service
Commission shall have the authority to require each applicant
for such Employee's Certificate of Convenience to file an appli-
cation, setting forth his name, address, place of employment,
and the names, addresses and place of employment of all em-
ployees whom he proposes to transport to and from their work,
and a statement showing facts which bring said employees with-
in the purview of this section. Said application shall be made
on forms prepared and furnished free by the Public Service
Commission and the statements contained in said application
shall be supported by the affidavit of the applicant.

Section 252B. Whenever any Employee's Certificate of Con-
venience provided for in the aforegoing section has been issued,
the holder of said Certificate may, by filing one of the duplicate
copies of said Certificate, apply to the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles for special license plates to be provided by said Com-
missioner, and upon the issuance of said special license plates
and their display on said car, said owner shall be entitled to
transport for hire to and from their common place of employ-
ment such fellow-employees as may be designated in said Cer-
tificate, but said special license plates and certificate shall not
authorize said owner to transport such designated employees for
hire anywhere except to and from their common place of em-
ployment, nor shall it authorize him to transport anyone for
hire not designated in said Certificate.

Section 252C. In addition to the usual license fees now pro-
vided by law, each owner applying for the special license plates