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charged by the State or any county or municipal subdivision of the
State, except the property tax and gasoline tax in respect to such
vehicles and their operation. For each such motor vehicle, the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles shall furnish a distinctive marker or
tag, which marker or tag shall be carried and displayed in such man-
ner as directed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

185. [The license or registration fees, charged under this sub-
title for passenger motor vehicle, except in case of seasonal permits,
shall be on the basis of the entire year but may be issued on or after
the first day of November, in any year, for the remainder of the year,
expiring on the 30th day of April, in which event one-half of the
yearly fee shall be paid.] No portion of the license or registration fee
paid [as aforesaid] on passenger motor vehicles subject to the pro-
visions of this sub-title will be refunded for any part of the year
during which said license is not used, provided, however, that [re-
ductions in said fee occasioned by change of route or schedule or
abandonment of route, shall be allowed as a credit upon all sums
payable by such motor vehicle owner, in the course of the current
calendar year, for excess mileage of any motor vehicle registered in
the name of such owner under the provisions of this sub-title; and
provided further that,] whenever, pursuant to or by reason of any
direction or order of any agency of the government of the United
States or of the State of Maryland, the owner of any such passenger
motor vehicle discontinues the operation of said vehicle, [or reduces
the mileage operation of said vehicle, or eliminates any route over
which said vehicle is licensed to operate, or reduces the passenger
capacity of said vehicle, or in any other manner curtails the operation
of said vehicle,] such owner, at any time on or after such direction
or order has become effective, [(a)] may [, in the event the opera-
tion of said vehicle is discontinued,] surrender the registration tags
issued for such motor vehicle and may thereupon apply to the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles for and shall be entitled to a refund of
the fee paid for registration of such motor vehicle pro rata for the
unused portion of such registration year [, or (b) shall be entitled,
in the event the route mileage or passenger capacity of said vehicle
is reduced, or any route over which said vehicle is licensed to operate
is eliminated, or the operation of said vehicle is in any other manner
curtailed, on application to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, on
forms by him to be prescribed, showing the nature and extent of
such reduction of operation or passenger capacity, elimination of
route or other curtailment, to a refund of the difference between the
fee actually paid for the registration of said vehicle and the fee which
would otherwise have been required to be paid for the registration
of said vehicle calculated on the basis of the passenger seat-miles
theretofore traveled by said vehicle, plus the passenger seat-miles
which it is shown by such application for refund said vehicle will
travel in the remaining portion of such year].

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Section 81 (j) of Article
66½ of the said Code, title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title "Administra-
tion—Registration—Titling", be and it is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, with amendments, to read as follows:

81.

(j) Class I, pneumatic tires.—(1) All buses operating under char-
ter or for hire, exclusive of those operating on a regularly fixed sched-