Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    601

211.    The term "Taxicabs" as used in this sub-title shall embrace
any motor vehicle for hire designed to carry seven persons or less,
including the driver, operated upon any street or public highway
in St. Mary's County or, on call or on demand, accepting or so-
liciting passengers indiscriminately for transportation for hire be-
tween such points along public streets or highways in St. Mary's
County, as may be directed by the passenger or passengers so being
transported; provided that nothing in this sub-title shall be con-
strued to include as a taxicab a motor vehicle operated with the
approval of the Public Service Commission of Maryland, on fixed
routes and schedules.

212.    In order to protect the public health, safety and welfare
of the citizens of St. Mary's County and other persons who may use
taxicab facilities therein, the County Commissioners of St. Mary's
County are hereby authorized and empowered to enact, amend and
repeal resolutions, to fix requirements for ownership and operation
of taxicabs in St. Mary's County and to provide for inspection and
licensing of taxicabs, their owners and operators. The regulation
herein provided for the taxicab industry in St. Mary's County shall
be in addition to any regulation by the Commissioner of Motor Ve-
hicles of Maryland or the Public Service Commission of Maryland.
Any person, firm or corporation subject to this sub-title who shall
be aggrieved by any resolution of the County Commissioners of St.
Mary's County, enacted pursuant to the authority herein conferred,
may commence an action in the Circuit Court of St. Mary's County
against the County Commissioners to vacate and set aside any such
resolution on the ground that the regulation, practice, act or service
established by such resolution is unreasonable or unlawful* The de-
cision of the Circuit Court shall be appealable to the Court of Appeals
of Maryland by either party, provided such appeal is entered within
twenty days after the judgment of the Circuit Court is rendered.

212A. (a) Any person, firm or corporation violating any reso-
lution promulgated under the authority of Section 212 shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by
a fine of not more than $250.00 for each offense. In addition, the
County Commissioners of St. Mary's County, upon proof of any
violation of any ordinance promulgated under Section 212 shall
have authority to revoke or suspend any license issued under the
authority of Section 212 after according reasonable opportunity to
the licensee to be heard.

(b) If any provision, clause, sentence, phrase, or part of this
sub-title, or the application thereof to any person, firm or corpora-
tion or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this sub-title
and the application of such provision to other persons, firms and
corporations and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved March 28, 1957.