HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1921

and upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of One
($1. 00) dollar to Fifty ($50. 00) dollars or by imprisonment
not to exceed one (1) year, or by both. In case of any viola-
tion of any provision or provisions of this section by any com-
mon carrier or person operating under a permit issued by the
Public Service Commission of Maryland, said permit shall
either be revoked, or, in the discretion of said Commission,
suspended until said provision or provisions are complied with
to the satisfaction of said Commission.

240. TRUCKS TO CARRY FLARES OR SIMILAR DEVICES, (a)
No person shall operate any vehicle, except taxicabs or private
passenger or commercial motor vehicles or commercial motor
vehicles for hire whose gross weight of vehicle and load capaci-
ty is not more than 8500 lbs., upon the highways of this State,
outside of a business or residence district at any time there is
insufficient daylight to make substantial objects visible at a dis-
tance of three hundred feet, unless there shall be carried in
such vehicle a sufficient number of flares, not less than three,
or electric lanterns or other signals capable of continuously
producing a brilliant warning light for eight hours except
that a vehicle transporting inflammable material may carry red
reflectors in place of the other signals above mentioned. Every
such flare, lantern, signal, or reflector shall be of a type ap-
proved by the Department and it shall publish lists of those
devices approved as adequate for the purposes of this section.

(b) Whenever any vehicle described in sub-section (a), or
its lighting equipment is disabled during the period when
lighted lamps must be displayed on vehicles and such vehicle
cannot immediately be removed from the main travelled por-
tion of a highway outside of a business or residence district,
or when any disabled vehicle described in sub-section (a) is
parked on the highway in such position near the crest of a
hill or curve as to create danger to other users of the highway,
the driver or other person in charge of such vehicle shall im-
mediately cause such flares, lanterns, or other signals to be
lighted and placed upon the highway one at a distance of ap-
proximately 100 feet in advance of such vehicle, one at a dis-
tance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of such vehicle, and
the third upon the roadway side of such vehicle, except that if
the vehicle is transporting inflammables, three brilliant red
reflectors in lieu of other signals, shall be placed adjacent to
any such last mentioned vehicle.

(e) No person shall at any time operate a vehicle transport-
ing explosives as a cargo or part of a cargo upon a highway
unless it carries flares or electric lanterns as herein required,
but such flares or electric lanterns must be capable of proj
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