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this Article to be transmitted to the county registrar, the
local registrar shall receive the sum of ten cents, to be
paid by the county upon warrant of the County Commis-
sioners. The State Registrar shall certify to the County
Commissioners of each county annually, or oftener, the
number of properly executed certificates of births and
deaths received from each local or deputy local registrar for
which fees are provided by this section for the year or por-
tion of a year included. Provided, however, that in Charles
County the local registrar shall be entitled to receive the
sum of $1. 00 for each birth or death certificate where said
certificates are issued in compliance with this section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 454

(Senate Bill 314)

AN ACT to add three new sections to Article 7 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition),
title "Carroll County", to be under a new sub-title to
be known as "Taxicabs", and said new sections to be
known as Sections 550, 551 and 552, to follow immedi-
ately after Section 549 of said Article, providing for the
regulation in Westminster of taxicabs and their owners
and operators, and providing penalties for violations
of such regulations.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That three new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 7 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Carroll County", to be under a new
sub-title to be known as "Taxicabs", said new sections to
be known as Sections 550, 551 and 552, to follow immedi-
ately after Section 549 of said Article, and to read as
follows:

550. The term "taxicab" as used in this sub-title shall
embrace any motor vehicle for hire designated to carry
seven persons or less, including the driver, operated upon
any public street or highway in the City of Westminster,
or, on call or demand, accepting or soliciting passengers
indiscriminately for transportation for hire between such