ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 293

Lights and Mufflers, " to follow immediately after Sub-
section (3), to be designated Sub-section (3A), provid-
ing for danger and caution signals and a penalty for the
failure to use same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That one new Sub-section be and the same is
hereby added to Section 193 of Article 56 of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of Maryland (1929 Sup-
plement), title "Licenses, " sub-title "Motor Vehicles, " sub-
heading "Brakes, Bells, Lights and Mufflers, " to follow
immediately after Sub-section (3); to be designated Sub-
section (3A) and to read as follows:

(3A). DANGER AND CAUTION SIGNALS—Every mo-
tor bus and every motor omnibus for the carriage of passen-
gers for hire, except taxicabs, and every commercial motor
vehicle having a carrying capacity of two tons or over,
shall be equipped with at least two red or yellow burning
danger or caution signals, with friction cap ignition,
similar in type to a time-burning railway fuse signal, and
so constructed as to burn with a brilliant red or yellow
light for not less than fifteen minutes.

Whenever any such vehicle becomes disabled while
within the limits of the traveled part of a highway to such
an extent that it cannot proceed under its own power, and
its lighting is so disabled that it constitutes a menace to
other vehicular traffic, the operator thereof shall cause to
be continuously displayed on the surface of the highway
the red or yellow-burning danger or caution signals, as
herein required, in such manner as to prevent personal in-
juries, loss of life, and damage to property by collision.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this Sec-
tion shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor
more than fifty dollars, and in default of payment thereof
shall be liable to imprisonment for not less than ten nor
more than thirty days in the discretion of the Justice of
the Peace or the Court hearing such case.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
be declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved December 15f 1933.