686 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 276

565B. In order to protect the public health, safety and
welfare of the citizens of Anne Arundel County and other
persons who may use taxicab facilities therein, the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to enact, amend and repeal reso-
lutions, to fix requirements for ownership and operation
of taxicabs in Anne Arundel County and to provide for
inspection and licensing of taxicabs, their owners and
operators. The regulation herein provided for the taxicab
industry in Anne Arundel County shall be in addition to
any regulation by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of
Maryland or the Public Service Commission of Maryland.
Any person, firm or corporation subject to this sub-title
who shall be aggrieved by any resolution of the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County, enacted pursuant to
the authority herein conferred, may commence an action
in the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County against the
County Commissioners to vacate and set aside any such
resolution on the ground that the regulation, practice, act
or service established by such resolution is unreasonable
or unlawful. The decision of the Circuit Court shall be
appealable to the Court of Appeals of Maryland by either
party, provided such appeal is entered within twenty days
after the judgment of the Circuit Court is rendered.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the
regulation by the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
of taxicabs regularly operating in Baltimore City and
operating occasionally in Anne Arundel County, if said
taxicabs are subject to regulation as to rates and practices
by the Public Service Commission of Maryland and the
City of Baltimore, prior to and at the time of any operation
in Anne Arundel County.

565C. (a) Any person, firm or corporation violating
any resolution promulgated under the authority of Section
565B shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic-
tion thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than
$250. 00 for each offense. In addition, the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County, upon proof of any
violation of any ordinance promulgated under Section
565B shall have authority to revoke or suspend any license
issued under the authority of Section 565B after according
reasonable opportunity to the licensee to be heard.

(b) If any provision, clause, sentence, phrase, or part
of this sub-title, or the application thereof to any person,
firm or corporation or circumstances, is held invalid, the
remainder of this sub-title and the application of such