HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1365
CHAPTER 656.
(House Bill 744)
AN ACT to add six new sections to Article 14 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "How-
ard County", sub-title "Roads", ' sub-heading "Traffic Regula-
tions", said new sections to be known as Sections 288E to
288 J, inclusive, and to follow immediately after Section
288D of said Article, as enacted by Chapter 16 of the Acts
of 1937, authorizing the County Commissioners of Howard
County to adopt rules, orders and regulations for the use of
highways in Howard County as to parking and/or move-
ment of automobiles and other vehicles thereon.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That six new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Howard County", sub-title "Roads", sub-head-
ing "Traffic Regulations", said new sections to be known as
Sections 288E to 288J, inclusive, to follow immediately after
Section 288D of said Article, as enacted by Chapter 16 of the
Acts of 1937, and to read as follows:
288E. The Board of County Commissioners, for the safety
and convenience of the public and for the purpose of keeping
the roads and highways in said county from becoming con-
gested by automobiles, motor cars and other vehicles and to
permit the free and unobstructed use of said roads and high-
ways, shall have power, from time to time, and whenever in
its judgment it becomes necessary, to pass and adopt such
reasonable rules, orders and regulations as it may deem proper
regulating, restricting and/or limiting the parking or move-
ment of automobiles or other vehicles on any public highway
of said county, and such orders, rules and regulations, when
the same have been so passed, shall have the force and effect
of law and any violation thereof shall subject the person or
persons so violating the same to the penalties prescribed in
this sub-title.
288F. After the passage and adoption of any such rules,
orders and regulations, the County Commissioners shall cause
to be placed and thereafter maintained in conspicuous places
along such roads or highways, signs or markers appropriately
describing the rules and regulations as may be applicable to
the particular road or highway. The County Commissioners
shall keep in its office a separate docket or journal containing
all such rules, orders and regulations passed and adopted pur-
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