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401.

Article VI. Withdrawal or Revocation

Any contracting state may withdraw from this agreement upon
thirty days written notice to each other contracting state, which
notice shall be given only after the repeal of this agreement by the
legislature of such state, if adoption was by legislative act, or after
renunciation by the appropriate administrative official of such con-
tracting state if the laws thereof empower him so to renounce.

402.

Article VII. Construction and Severability

This Compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the
purposes thereof. The provisions of this Compact shall be severable
and if any phase, clause, sentence or provision of this Compact is
declared to be contrary to the Constitution of any state or of the
United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency,
person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder
of this Compact and the applicability thereof to any government,
agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this
Compact, shall be held contrary to the Constitution of any state par-
ticipating herein, the Compact shall remain in full force and effect
as to the remaining party states and in full force and effect as to the
state affected as to all severable matters.

403.

As used in the agreement, with reference to this State, the term
"administrator" shall mean the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

404.

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have the power to make
such exemptions from the coverage of the agreement as may be ap-
propriate and to make such changes in methods for the reporting of
any information required to be furnished to this state pursuant to the
agreement as, in his judgment, shall be suitable; provided that any
such exemptions or changes shall not be contrary to the purposes set
forth in Article I of the agreement and shall be made in order to per-
mit the continuance of uniformity of practice among the contracting
states with respect to buses. Any such exemption or change shall be
made by rule or regulation and shall not be effective unless made by
the same procedure required for other rules and regulations of his
department as prescribed under Article 41 Section 9 and Article
66½ Section 10 (b).

405.

Unless otherwise provided in any statute withdrawing this State
from participation in the agreement, the Governor shall be the of-
ficer to give notice of withdrawal therefrom.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 184(a) of Article
56 of the said Code of Maryland (1963 Supplement) title "Licenses",
sub-title "Public Passenger and Freight Motor Vehicles", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: