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Session Laws, 1935
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104 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 61

zling or glaring light to a height of more than forty-two
(42) inches above the surface of the road when measured
on a level road at a distance of seventy-five (75) feet or
more ahead.

Candle Power. No motor vehicle of any kind shall at
any time, whether in use or not in use, be equipped with an
electric bulb or other lighting device of a greater capacity
than thirty-two (32) candle-power, no matter how the
same may be shaded, covered or obscured.

Lenses. No motor vehicle of any kind shall at any time,
whether in use or not in use, be equipped with any lamp
without any glass or with a plain glass front, behind which
there is an electric bulb or other lighting device of a greater
capacity than four candlepower, unless such bulb itself be
so designed, constructed and used as to prevent glare.

The State Board of Motor Vehicle Headlight Inspection
is hereby created. Said Board shall consist of the Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles, Commissioner of Police of Bal-
timore City, and the Secretary of the Automobile Club of
Maryland. The members of said Board shall serve without
pay and shall hold meetings at such times and places as in
their judgment may be necessary. The said Board is hereby
expressly charged with the enforcement of the aforegoing-
provisions prohibiting the use of glaring or dazzling head-
lights on the highways of this State, and shall have full
power and authority to make, promulgate and enforce all
reasonable regulations to this end, both for the purpose of
determining the character of headlights to be used, includ-
ing inspections, tests and licensing or permitting the sale
of the same, and the use thereof on the highways. It shall be
unlawful for anyone to use, sell or have in his possession
any headlight or other lighting device designed for use on
motor vehicles on the public highways of this State contrary
to this sub-title or contrary to such regulations so to be pre-
scribed by said State Board of Motor Vehicle Headlight
Inspection, subject to a penalty of not less than one dollar
($1. 00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25. 00) f or the
first offense, and to a penalty of not more than one hundred
dollars ($100) for the second or any subsequent offense,
such penalties to b. e enforced by the Traffic Court of Balti-
more City or any Justice of the Peace of the State having
jurisdiction, as provided in Section 204 of this Article; pro-
vided, however, that any person who may feel himself ag-
grieved by any general regulation promulgated by the said
Board of Motor Vehicle Headlight Inspection under the
powers contained in this provision, may apply to any court

 

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