THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 169

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new paragraph be and it is hereby added
to Section 22 (a) of Article 66i/₂ of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title
"Administration—Registration—Titling", said new para-
graph to be known as Paragraph (7), and to follow imme-
diately after Paragraph (6) thereof, as said Paragraph
(6) was added by Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1953; and
that Section 139 of Article 56 of said Code, title "Licenses",
sub-title "Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax", as said section w^as
amended by Chapter 133 of the Acts of 1953, and Section
28(d) of said Article 66i/^ and said title and sub-title, as
said section was amended by Chapter 657 of the Acts of
1953, be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and all to read as follows:

22.

(a).

(7). Any ambulance owned and used by any chapter in
Maryland of the American Red Cross- AND BY ANY
BONA FIDE UNIT OF A NATIONAL VETERANS'
ORGANIZATION.

139. Any person, firm or corporation who shall buy or
use any motor vehicle fuel as defined in this sub-title for the
purpose of operating or propelling stationary gas engines,
tractors used for agricultural purposes, motor boats, air-
planes or aircraft, or who shall purchase or use any of such
fuel for cleaning or dyeing or other commercial use of the
same, except in motor vehicles operated or intended to be
operated in whole or in part upon any of the public high-
ways of the State of Maryland, or who shall suffer the loss
of motor vehicle fuel through fire, collision or other casualty,
but not to include loss inherent in the ordinary transporta-
tion and storage of motor vehicle fuel, or buy and use any
of said fuel in fire apparatus or ambulances operated by
any volunteer fire company incorporated in this State, or
in any ambulance owned and used by any Maryland
chapter of the American Red Cross, AND BY ANY
BONA FIDE UNIT OF A NATIONAL VETERANS'
ORGANIZATION on which motor fuel the tax imposed
by this sub-title shall have been paid, shall be reim-
bursed and repaid the amount of such tax paid by him
upon presenting to the Comptroller a statement accompa-
nied by the original invoices showing such purchase, which
statement shall set forth the total amount of such fuel so
purchased and used by such consumer, other than in motor
vehicles operated or intended to be operated upon any of