1176                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 606

ment Volume), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Operation of Ve-
hicles upon Highways," relating to the issuance of permits for
transporting oversized farm equipment or implements of husbandry
or motor vehicles transporting farm equipment or implements of
husbandry in the State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 310 (a) of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Motor vehicles," subtitle
"Operation of Vehicles upon Highways," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

310.

(a) No motor vehicle, other than farm equipment and implements
of husbandry, in excess of ninety-six inches in width, including the
load thereof, except traction engines and any load of forage crops in
connection with harvesting operations where the distance of haul-
ing is less than two (2) FIVE (5) miles on such highways of the
State, shall be operated on any such highway in this State, and no
traction engine in excess of one hundred inches in width shall be
operated on any such highway, nor shall any motor vehicle equipped
with solid tires be so operated of which the total weight of vehicle
and load per inch in width of each tire as such tires are rated by the
tire manufacturers shall exceed six hundred and fifty pounds, with-
out the special permission of the State Roads Commission in the case
of a road under its jurisdiction, or the permission of the city author-
ities in the case of a city street, or the permission of the county
authorities in the case of a county highway. Provided, however that
nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent the opera-
tion upon any street, road or highway in this State, of a motor ve-
hicle loaded with tobacco hogsheads and having an overall width
when loaded not in excess of one hundred and three (103) inches.

Providing further that nothing in this subsection shall be con-
strued to prevent the operation upon any street, road or highway in
this State of farm equipment, implements of husbandry, or motor
vehicles transporting farm equipment or implements of husbandry,
so long as the operator of said motor vehicle hauling farm equip-
ment or implement of husbandry has acquired a permit from the
district OR COUNTY engineer of the State Roads Commission for
the area involved authorizing such operation. [Motor] An operator
of motor vehicles transporting oversized farm equipment or imple-
ments of husbandry may apply [to] for such district OR COUNTY
engineer permit, at no charge, granting him the authority to haul
such oversized equipment or implement on public roads [[between
two designated points on a designated date] for an entire year. The
said district OR COUNTY engineer may in his discretion SHALL
issue such permits annually. The holder of such a permit, when
hauling the oversized equipment or implement, shall have the permit
on his person at the time of the operation, and shall obey all traffic
laws of this State.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.