HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 829

returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment as directed by said
Article 14 of the Constitution.

Approved April 26, 1939.

CHAPTER 382.
(Senate Bill 174)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
209 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
1935 Supplement, title "Licenses", sub-title "Motor Vehi-
cles", Part VI Rules of the Road, to grant salvage corps
vehicles the same rights of way going to and from fires
now possessed by fire department vehicles.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 209 of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, 1935 Supplement, title "Licenses", sub-
title "Motor Vehicles", Part VI Rules of the Road, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows:

209. All vehicles, motor, horse-drawn or otherwise,
when being driven upon the highways of this State shall
at all times keep to the right of the center of the highway
upon all highways of sufficient width, except upon streets
or roads where the traffic is permitted to move in one
direction only, and except when overtaking and passing
another vehicle, and unless it is impracticable to travel
on such side of the highway, and in rounding curves shall
keep as far to the right of the center of the road as reason-
ably possible; and any vehicle overtaking another going in
the same direction shall pass to the left of the vehicle so
overtaken, provided the way ahead is clear of approaching
traffic and the operator signals the vehicle intended to be
passed by the use of his horn or other signalling device,
and that no vehicle shall pass another from the rear at the
top or near the top of a hill or on a curve where the view
ahead is in anywise obstructed or while the vehicle ahead
is crossing an intersecting highway or any steam or elec-
tric railway crossing; any vehicle so overtaken shall
promptly, upon signal, turn as far as reasonably possible to
the right in order to allow free passage on the left.