1142 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 386

CHAPTER 386
(House Bill 394)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
249(a) of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1947 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title "Oper-
ation of Vehicles Upon Highways", specifying the permis-
sible width of vehicles loaded with tobacco hogsheads.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sub-section 249(a) of Article 66y₂ of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1947 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be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,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.

(a) No motor vehicle, other than farm equipment and im-
plements of husbandry, 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 high-
way, 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, with-
out 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 permis-
sion of the county authorities in the case of a county highway.
Provided, however, that nothing in this sub-section shall be
construed to prevent the operation upon any street, road or
highway in this State, of a motor vehicle loaded with tobacco
hogsheads and having an overall width when loaded not in
excess of one hundred and three (103) inches.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 13, 1951.

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.