WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1611

by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same
shall take effect May 1, 1949.

Approved May 6, 1949.

CHAPTER 675

(Senate Bill 242)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
359 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Corporations, " sub-title "Public
Service Commission, " authorizing the People's Counsel
to appeal from orders of the Public Service Commission
and relating to his rights and powers in such cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 359 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Corporations, " sub-title
"Public Service Commission, " be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

359. (a) After an order has been made by the Com-
mission, any party interested therein may apply for a
rehearing in respect to any matter determined therein,
and the Commission may grant and hold such a rehearing
if, in its judgment, sufficient reason therefor be made to
appear; if a rehearing shall be granted, the same shall be
determined by the Commission within thirty days after
the same shall be finally submitted. Any application for
such a rehearing shall not excuse any common carrier,
railroad corporation, or street railroad corporation, or
any other corporation, or company or person, subject to any
of the provisions of this sub-title, from complying with or
obeying any order, or any requirements of any order of the
Commission, or operate in any manner to stay or postpone
the enforcement thereof, except as the Commission may by
order direct. If, after such rehearing and consideration of
the facts, including those arising since the making of the
order, the Commission shall be of the opinion that the ori-
ginal order, or any part thereof, is in any respect unjust
or unwarranted, the Commission my abrogate, change or
modify the same. An order made for any such rehearing,
abrogating, changing or modifying the original order shall
have the same force and effect as an original order.