1366 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 656

suant to this sub-title, which journal or docket shall at all
times be open to inspection and examination by the public.

288G. In the case of public fairs, games, parades and/or
other public events being held in said county where a large
gathering of people or vehicles along any such road, street or
highway is anticipated, the County Commissioners may pass
and adopt such reasonable temporary rules and regulations
governing the traffic and the movement of vehicles in the
vicinity of any such fair, game, parade or other public event as
said County Commissioners may deem necessary to prevent
the congestion of such traffic and the obstruction of such
streets, roads or highways; and such rules and regulations
shall have the same force and effect as other rules and regula-
tions passed pursuant to this sub-title.

288H. The presence along any such highway, road or street
of the signs or markers mentioned in this sub-title shall be
prima facie evidence of the passage of the rules, orders and/or
regulations herein provided for. It shall be unlawful for any
person wilfully to deface, injure, move or interfere with any
sign, standard, post, safety zone, or any other traffic directing
device erected by the authority of the Board of County Com-
missioners; or with any lines or marks painted by authority of
the said County Commissioners, 011 any pavement, curb or road-
way for the purpose of directing traffic or parking of vehicles.

288-I. Any person violating any provisions of this sub-title,
or any rule, order and/or regulation passed by the Board of
County Commissioners pursuant hereto, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before a justice
of the peace of said county shall be fined for each and every
offense any sum not less than one dollar and not exceeding
twenty-five dollars.

288J. In case it shall be judicially determined that any
word, phrase, clause, item, sentence, or section of this sub-title
and/or any rule, order or regulation passed by the Board of
County Commissioners pursuant hereto, or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the re-
maining provisions and the application of such provisions to
other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

SEC. 2. And 'be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts
of laws, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be and
they are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 24, 1939.