1198 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 496

tions to be known as Sections 274A and 274B and to fol-
low immediately after Section 274 of said Article, re-
lating to safety devices on motor track cars.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assemblyrof Maryland,
That two new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Corporations, " sub-title "Railroad Compa-
nies, " said new sections to be known as Sections 274A and
274B, to follow immediately after Section 274 of said
Article, and to read as follows:

274A. On and after July 1, 1950, it shall be un-
lawful for any person, firm or corporation, operating or
controlling any railroad running through or within this
State to operate or use any track motor car which is not
equipped with:

(a) A windshield or wind breaker; and

(b) An electric lamp of such construction and with
sufficient candlepower to render plainly visible at a dis-
tance of not less than two hundred feet in advance of
such track motor car, any track obstruction, landmark,
warning sign or grade crossing, and further shall equip
such track motor car with a red rear light or marker of
such construction as to be plainly visible at a distance of
200 feet. This sub-section (b) shall apply only to those
track motor cars in use from thirty minutes after sunset
to thirty minutes before sunrise.

274B. Any person, firm or corporation operating or
controlling any railroad running through or within this
state using or permitting to be used on its line in this state
a track motor car in violation of the provisions of this sec-
tion shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for
each violation.

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

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 496
(Senate Bill 465)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of
Cumberland, Maryland, to borrow the sum of Three
Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350, 000. 00), and to