HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1173

The term "owner" shall include any person, firm, association
or corporation owning a motor vehicle or having the exclusive
use thereof, under contract of purchase, lease, hiring or rental
thereof, or otherwise.

The term "dealer" shall be limited to individuals, firms or
corporations actively engaged in the business of buying, sell-
Ing or exchanging new motor vehicles and who hold a dealer's
contract therefor from the manufacturer or distributor and
who have an established place for the conduct of such business.

The term "chauffeur" shall be taken to include every person
operating a motor vehicle for hire, or as an employee of the
owner thereof.

The terms "highway", "roads", "public highways" or "pub-
lic roads" shall include any highway or thoroughfare of any
kind used by the public, whether actually dedicated to the
public and accepted by the proper authorities or otherwise;
arid the term shall include roads and driveways of State
Hospitals and other State Institutions.

The term "safety zone" shall include all parts of the public
highways or private rights of way which are elevated above
the travelled roadbed, or set apart therefrom for the exclusive
use of pedestrians or street car passengers and which are
guarded or protected against vehicular travel by posts, plant-
ings, curbing or otherwise, or which are appropriately marked
or designated as safety zones by duly constituted State or
municipal authorities.

Whenever reference is made in this sub-title to a motor
vehicle equipped with six wheels it shall be construed to mean
a motor vehicle with not more than two wheels on any axle
and with all three wheels on each side of the motor vehicle
approximately in line.

The term "regular schedule" shall be given a liberal con-
struction and shall include the carriage of freight or merchan-
dise of at least one single trip per week for four consecutive
weeks between fixed termini, and if freight or merchandise is
carried by any motor vehicle on the average of at least one
single trip each week between fixed termini, such operation
shall constitute a regular schedule.

The term "fixed termini" shall be given a liberal construc-
tion and shall include any city, town, village, state line, county
line, or city line or any other geographical point marking the
beginning or the end of a carriage of goods in the State of
Maryland, provided each termini is at least five miles apart.

The term "Commercial Motor Vehicles" shall include:

(a) All motor vehicles designed and used for carrying
freight or merchandise, or

(b) All motor vehicles used for carrying freight or mer-
chandise in the furtherance of any commercial enterprise.