1394                        LAWS OF MARYLAND.                   [CH. b'3\)

State Roads Commission shall have authority at any time to
grant to any person or corporation the right to place adver-
tisements along or upon the public highways of the State, said
advertisement, however, to be used only in communication with
direction or danger signals, and subject to such limitations and
restrictions as the State Roads Commission shall impose at the
time of the granting of said permit or thereafter, and said per-
mit in no event to be issued unless the need for the direction
or clanger signals to be erected in connection therewith is
clearly demonstrated to the satisfaction of the State Roads
Commission, and any person or corporation doing any of the
things prohibited by this section under and by virtue of a
permit issued to him or it by the State Roads Commission as
aforesaid shall be immune from prosecution for the commis-
sion of any acts under the terms of this section.

68. All State Roads constructed or maintained under the
provisions of this Article shall have a right of way at least
forty feet in width.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts, general or local, passed by the session of the General
Assembly of Maryland in the year 1931, relating to or in any
way affecting Article 91 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland, title "Surveyor and State Survey, " or in any
manner amending or adding to said Article, as said Article
existed before the passage of this Act, or in any way incon-
sistent with this Act, shall in no wise be affected by the passage
of this Act, but all such laws shall have the same force and
effect as if this Act had not been passed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any clause, sen-
tence, paragraph or section of this Article shall, for any reason,
be adjudged by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be un-
constitutional and invalid, such judgment shall not affect, im-
pair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined
in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph or section
thereof so found unconstitutional and invalid.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
of laws, general or local, enacted prior to the session of the
General Assembly of Maryland in the year 1931, inconsistent
with the provisions. of this Act be and the same are hereby
repealed.

Approved April 17, 1931.