ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1357

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 228 of
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of the Public General Laws
of Maryland, Edition of 1924, entitled "Licenses, " sub-title
"Garages, " be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

228. No person, firm, company or corporation, resident or
non-resident, in this State shall keep a garage or open-air
garage for the hire, storage or sale of automobiles until they
shall first have obtained a license therefor, and shall pay an
annual license fee based upon the square foot area of each floor
for each garage, or in the case of an open-air garage, upon the
square foot area of the space used for garage purposes as herein
provided, viz.:

Garage containing not more than 1600 square feet.. $ 5. 00

Those containing more than 1600 square feet, and
not more than 2000 square feet................... 20. 00

Those containing more than 2000 square feet, and
not more than 3000 square feet................... 30. 00

Those containing more than 3000 square feet, and
not more than 4000 square feet................... 55. 00

Those containing more than 4000 square feet, and
not more than 5000 square feet................... 75. 00

Those containing more than 5000 square feet, and.
not more than 7500 square feet................... 125. 00

Those containing more than 7500 square feet, and
not more than 10, 000 square feet,.................. 200. 00

For every additional 1000 square feet or fractional
part thereof the sum of $10. 00 additional.

A garage, or open-air garage, as used within the terms of this
section shall mean a place of storage for hire or a place where
is kept for hire any automobile, locomobile, or any vehicle of
any kind the motive power of which shall be electricity, steam,
gas, gasoline or any other motive power except animals
and air-craft, whether such automobile, locomobile or vehicle is
kept therein permanently or temporarily, but wherever such
garage has included within the building a machine shop, which
machine shop is definitely defined by permanent partitions in
the building, the space occupied by the same shall be exempted
from taxation under this section.

In computing the license fees according to the provisions of
this section, there shall be deducted from the total floor space
of such garages a space fifteen feet wide and extending the
entire length or depth of the garage, in all cases where a