66                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 45

Highways", removing a requirement that the Department of Motor
Vehicles must summons for a hearing on suspension of operator's
or chauffeur's license motor vehicle violators who have twice been
summonsed before a magistrate or justice or served with a war-
rant and failed to appear for trial.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 284 of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title "Operation of Ve-
hicles Upon Highways", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

284. (Person Arrested has Right to Demand Summons in follow-
ing Cases.) Provided, however, that if any person arrested for the
violation of any of the provisions of this Article or of any public
local law or of any municipal ordinance or Police regulation of
Baltimore City, or of any incorporated town or city in Maryland
regulating traffic, is a resident of the State of Maryland, a resident
of a county or the City of Baltimore, other than that in which the
arrest is made, or is a resident of the County or the City of Baltimore
in which the arrest is made, such person shall have the right to de-
mand and receive and it shall be the duty of the officer or officers
arresting such person to inform him of his right to make such de-
mand and to comply with such demand if made, a summons requiring
him to appear on a day to be named therein before said Justice of
the Peace, Police Justice or Trial Magistrate or if in Baltimore City
before the Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court, and the person
so arrested shall signify his willingness to appear before the Justice
of the Peace, Trial Magistrate, Police Justice, or Justice of the
Peace of the Traffic Court if in Baltimore City, named in said sum-
mons on the day therein, by endorsing his name and address on said
summons, and failing so to appear, the said Justice of the Peace, Trial
Magistrate, Police Justice, or Justice of the Peace of the Traffic
Court, as the case may be, before whom said summons is made
returnable shall issue a warrant for the arrest of said person or in
lieu of said warrant shall send by registered mail with return receipt
requested a second summons to the violator at his last known address
setting the case for trial on a date at least two weeks subsequent to
the original date of trial. [In the event the violator fails to appear
for trial on such subsequent date the Justice of the Peace, Trial
Magistrate, Police Justice, or Justice of the Peace of the Traffic
Court, as the case may be, shall certify to the Department the fact
that the violator has failed to appear for trial though duly summoned
and it shall be the duty of the Department to summons the violator
before it to show cause why the operator's or chauffeur's licenses and
registration card of said violator should not be suspended until the
final disposition of the charges then pending against said violator.]

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1. 1955.

Approved March 7, 1955.