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are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict or incon-
sistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 23, 1945.

CHAPTER 676.
(House Bill 305)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
249 of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1943 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title "Opera-
tion of Vehicles Upon Highways", excepting from the motor
vehicle load width provisions loads of forage crops hauled
in connection with harvesting operations less than a certain
distance on public highways.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 249 of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-
title "Operation of Vehicles Upon Highways", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

249. (Width of Motor Vehicles; Gross Weight Per Inch
Width of Solid Tire; Permit Required for Excess Width or
Weight. ) (a) No motor vehicle in excess of ninety-six inches
in width, including the load thereof, except traction engines
and any load of forage crops in connection with harvesting
operations where the distance of hauling is less than two (2)
miles on such highways of the State, shall be operated on any
such highway in. this State, and no traction engine in excess
of one hundred inches in width shall be operated on any such
highway, nor shall any motor vehicle equipped with solid
tires be so operated of which the total weight of vehicle and
load per inch in width of each tire as such tires are rated
by the tire manufacturers shall exceed six hundred and fifty
pounds, without the special permission of the State Roads
Commission in the case of a road under its jurisdiction, or
the permission of the city authorities in the case of a city
street, or the permission of the county authorities in the case
of a county highway.