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thereof, authorizing the appropriate authorities of any incorpo-
rated city, town or village to regulate the speed of vehicles on any
road, street, lane or alley within the corporate limits thereof which
has not been designated or maintained as a part of the State or
Federal highway system or an extension thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new section be and it. is hereby added to Article 66 1/2 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Motor Vehicles",
sub-title "Operation of Vehicles Upon Highways", said new section
to be known as Section 151A, to follow immediately after Section 151
thereof, and to read as follows:

151 A. (Powers of Cities, Towns and Villages.) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Article, the appropriate authorities of
any incorporated city, town or village are authorized and empowered
to regulate the speed of vehicles on any road, street, lane or alley
which is within their respective corporate limits and which has not
been designated or maintained as a part of the State or Federal high-
way system or an extension thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency law and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 24, 1955.

CHAPTER 44
(Senate Bill 8)

AN ACT to add Sections 16 to 36, inclusive, to Article 89 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Department of
Labor and Industry," said new sections to follow immediately after
Section 15 thereof and to be under the new sub-title "Occupational

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to add Section 68A to Article 101 of said Code,
title "Workmen's Compensation," said new section to follow im-
mediately after Section 68 thereof, and to be under the sub-title
"Miscellaneous," creating a Division of Industrial Safety within
the Department of Labor and Industry, under the direction of a
Director of Industrial Safety, relating generally to the occupational

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.