HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 745

providing generally for the regulation in Wicomico County
of taxicabs and their owners and operators, by the County
Commissioners of Wicomico County, and providing penalties
for violations of such ordinances and regulations.

SECTION 1. ' Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That three new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Wicomico County", 'to be under sub-title "Taxi-
cabs", said new sections to be known as Sections 397A, 397B
and 397C, to follow immediately after Section 397 of said Arti-
cle, and to read as follows:

TAXICABS.

397A. The term "Taxicab" as used in this sub-title shall
embrace any motor vehicle for hire designed to carry seven
persons or less, including the driver, operated upon any public
street or highway in Wicomico County, or, on call or demand,
accepting or soliciting passengers indiscriminately for trans-
portation for hire between such points along public streets or
highways in Wicomico County, as may be directed by the pas-
senger or passengers so being transported; provided that
nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to include as a
taxicab a motor vehicle operated, with the approval of the Pub-
lic Service Commission of Maryland, on fixed routes and sched-
ules.

397B. In order to protect the public health, safety and
welfare of the citizens of Wicomico County and other persons
who may use taxicab facilities therein, the County Commis-
sioners of Wicomico County are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to enact, amend and repeal ordinances, to prescribe rea-
sonable rates of fare, to fix requirements for the ownership
and operation of taxicabs in Wicomico County and to provide
for inspection and licensing of taxicabs, their owners and oper-
ators. The regulation herein provided for the taxicab Industry
for Wicomico County shall be in addition to any regulation
by the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Public Service
Commission of Maryland. Any person, firm or corporation
subject to this sub-title who shall be dissatisfied with any
ordinance of the County Commissioners of Wicomico County,
enacted pursuant to the authority herein conferred, may com-
mence an action in the Circuit Court of Wicomico County
against the County Commissioners to vacate and set aside
any such ordinance on the ground that the regulation, prac-
tice, act or service established by such ordinance is unreason-
able or unlawful. The decision of the Circuit Court shall be
appealable to the Court of Appeals of Maryland by either