628                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                           [CH. 365

HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE SAME SHALL
TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DAY OF ITS PASSAGE.

Approved April 11, 1955.

CHAPTER 365
(House Bill 406)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Subsection (4)
of Section 22 of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition and 1954 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-
title "Administration—Registration—Titling", relating to the
definition of "disabled veteran" for the purpose of securing an
exemption from payment of registration fees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Subsection (4) of Section 22 of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition and 1954 Supplement), title
"Motor Vehicles", sub-title "Administration — Registration —
Titling", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

22. (4) All motor vehicles owned and used by the government of
the United States, State of Maryland, or any city, town, village or
county in this State, and all motor vehicles owned and used for per-
sonal or official purposes by accredited consular or diplomatic officers
of foreign governments, 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 incorporated in this
State or rescue squad and used for fire-fighting or ambulance pur-
poses and all motor vehicles owned and used personally by veterans
who have either lost or lost the use of one or both legs,

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OR AN ARM OR A HAND, or who are blind are hereby
exempted from the provisions of this sub-title requiring the pay-
ment of registration fees, but all such vehicles shall display identifi-
cation 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,

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OR AN ARM OR A HAND, shall indicate
that they have been so designated or classified by the Veterans'
Administration; and for the purposes of this subsection 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, 1955.

Approved April 11, 1955.

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.