THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     83

of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Public Service Commission", be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

1.

(m) The term "transportation of property or freight", when used
in this Article, includes any service in connection with the receiving,
delivering, elevation, transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration,
icing, storage and handling of the property or freight transported,
but shall not include any service in connection with the transporter
tion of fluid milk.

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

Approved March 7, 1955.

CHAPTER 66
(House Bill 60)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 188 of
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Licenses", sub-title "Public Freight Motor Vehicles", pro-
viding that vehicles hauling milk to or from dairies should be
excluded from the provisions of said section and relating generally
to the laws concerning such vehicles.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 188 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Public Freight Motor
Vehicles", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

188. All motor vehicles, except when used exclusively for hauling
milk to cooling stations [or], freight platforms [in the counties]
and dairies, operating instrastate INTRASTATE for hire over the
improved roads and streets of this State or any County or munici-
pality thereof on regular schedules or between fixed termini, includ-
ing those used by corporations, groups of individuals and associations,
engaged in the transportation of freight or merchandise of their
stockholders, shareholders or members, whether on the co-operative
plan or otherwise, shall be subject to the provisions of this sub-title
and shall file an application as provided in Section 187 above, or such
application as may be required by the Public Service Commission and
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and shall pay the same tax
according to classification provided in Section 187. The public duties
of a common carrier shall not be imposed on the owner of any such
vehicle not actually engaged in public transportation, nor shall the

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.