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town, village or county of this State, and all motor vehicles
owned and used for personal or official purposes by ac-
credited consular or diplomatic officers of foreign govern-
ments, which officers are nationals of the state by which
they are appointed and are not citizens of the United States
and by any incorporated volunteer fire company incorpo-
rated in this State or rescue squad and used for fire-fight-
ing or ambulance purposes and all motor vehicles owned
and used personally by veterans who have either lost or
lost the use of one or [of] both legs, or who are blind are
hereby exempted from the provisions of this sub-title re-
quiring the payment of registration fees, but all such ve-
hicles shall display identification markers approved by the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and the identification
markers or other insignia on the vehicles of veterans who
have either lost or lost the use of one or both legs shall
indicate that they have been so designated or classified by
the Veterans' Administration; and for the purposes of this
sub-section a person shall be considered blind if he has a
permanent impairment of both eyes of the following status;
central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with
corrective glasses, or central visual acuity of more than
20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field
has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter
of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than
twenty degrees in the better eye.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1954.

Approved March 12, 1954.

CHAPTER 60
(House Bill 152)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
158 of Article 75 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Pleading, Practice and Process
at Law," sub-title "Process", providing that the plaintiff
in a tort action may sue all the defendants in the county
where anyone of the defendants reside.

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