840                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 324

and the charge therefor shall be $183. 25, unless the applicant
engages in business in any month subsequent to June 1, 1931,
when a ratable sum shall be charged. Thereafter, all licenses
shall be dated May 1st and shall expire the following April
30th and the full fee shall be charged therefor expect when the
applicant engages in the business in any other month subse-
quent to May 1st when such license shall be issued from such
month and a ratable sum charged therefor.

275.    Every application for license required by Section 274
of this sub-title shall be made on a form to be furnished by the
State Roads Commission and shall state the full name and post
office address of the applicant, as well as other relevant infor-
mation required by said State Roads Commission during the
consideration of any application for a license. Every person,
firm or corporation obtaining a license in pursuance of Section
274 of this sub-title shall also obtain a permit and pay a fee
therefor for the use of the State for the erection, maintenance
or use of each billboard or other structure, sign, poster or other
display advertising used, or to be used as provided in Section
277 of this sub-title, provided the proposed location of the said
billboard or other structure, sign, poster or other display adver-
tising be outside the corporate limits of any incorporated city,
town or village and within five hundred (500) feet of a public
highway of the State of Maryland.

276.     No person, firm or corporation not engaged in the
business of outdoor advertising for profit, shall, after the first
day of June, 1931, erect, or maintain outside the corporate
limits of any city, town or village and within five hundred
(500) feet of a public highway of the State of Maryland, any
billboard or other structure or signs, posters or display adver-
tising of any kind whatsoever, without a permit for that pur-
pose from the State Roads Commission as provided in the
following section of this sub-title.

277.     Every person, firm or corporation hereafter desiring
to erect or maintain billboards or other structures, signs, posters
or display advertising of any kind whatsoever, outside of the
corporate limits of any city, town or village, and within five
hundred (500) feet of a public highway of the State of Mary-
land, shall file with the State Roads Commission the following
information, data and plats concerning and explaining the pro-