Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                     77

Public Service Commission of Maryland, common carriers operated
by public authorities, Federal, State, District or municipal trans-
portation agencies, but to exclude toll bridges or other facilities
owned and operated by the Baltimore ANY County Revenue
Authority.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sub-section (d) of Section 2 of Sub-title I of Article 78 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1956 Supplement), title "Public Serv-
ice Commission", sub-title "Scope of Article and Definitions", be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

2.

(d) "Common Carrier" means and includes any person, public
authority, Federal, State, District or municipal transportation agency
engaged in the public transportation for hire of persons, property or
freight, whether by land, water, air or any combination of them, and
includes, but is not limited to, air line company, canal company, car
company, express company, freight company, freight line company,
motor vehicle company (including automobile company, motor bus
company and trucking company), power boat company (including
vessel-boat company and steamboat company and ferry company),
railroad company, street railroad company, sleeping car company,
taxicab company, toll bridge company, towing and lightering company,
and transit company. Any provisions of this Article to the contrary
notwithstanding, "Common Carrier" does not mean and shall not
include the Baltimore ANY County Revenue Authority or any toll
bridges or other facilities owned and operated by the Baltimore
ANY County Revenue Authority.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation 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 Maryland, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 13, 1957.

CHAPTER 66
(House Bill 123)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Class E of Sub-
section (a) of Section 80, said section which appears first in the
1956 Supplement, of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1956 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title "Admin-
istration—Registration—Titling", raising the maximum gross

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.