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Session Laws, 1939
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HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 825

highways of this State contrary to this sub-title or contrary
to such regulations so to be prescribed by said State Board
of Motor Vehicle Headlight Inspection, subject to a penalty
of not less than one dollar ($1. 00) nor more than twenty-
five dollars ($25. 00) for the first offense, and to a penalty
of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for the second
or any subsequent offense, such penalties to be enforced
by the Traffic Court of Baltimore City or any Justice of the
Peace of the State having jurisdiction, as provided in Sec-
tion 204 of this Article; provided, however, that any person
who may feel himself aggrieved by any general regulation
promulgated by the said Board of Motor Vehicle Headlight
Inspection under the powers contained in this provision,
may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to have
the enforcement of the same enjoined on the ground that
such regulation is unreasonable, unlawful or in excess of
the powers herein conferred upon said Board of Motor
Vehicle Headlight Inspection.

Any person who shall turn all or any of his motor vehicle
lights off for the purpose of avoiding arrest shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, subject to a
penalty of one hundred dollars ($100. 00) or imprisonment
for a period not to exceed ninety days, or both fine and
imprisonment.

(3A) DANGER AND CAUTION SIGNALS. Every motor bus
and every motor omnibus for the carriage of passengers for
hire, except taxicabs, and every commercial motor vehicle
having a carrying capacity of two tons or over, shall be
equipped with at least two red or yellow burning danger
or caution signals, with friction cap ignition, similar in
type to a time-burning railway fuse signal, and so con-
structed as to burn with a brilliant red or yellow light for
not less than fifteen minutes.

Whenever any such vehicle becomes disabled while with-
in the limits of the traveled part of a highway to such an
extent that it cannot proceed under its own power, and its
lighting is so disabled that it constitutes a menace to other
vehicular traffic, the operator thereof shall cause to be
continuously displayed on the surface of the highway the
red or yellow burning danger or caution signals, as herein
required, in such manner as to prevent personal injuries,
loss of life, and damage to property by collision.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this Sec-
tion shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor
more than fifty dollars, and in default of payment thereof
shall be liable to imprisonment for not less than ten nor


 

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