400                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 159

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may accept a certificate as
proof of such applicant's knowledge of the traffic laws of the State
without further examination as to such knowledge. Four Dollars
($4.00) of said fee shall go into a special fund in the State Treasury
known as the Driver Education Fund, which monies shall be accu-
mulated until expended as provided in this section. Out of such funds
from and after July 1, 1962, the Department of Education shall pro-
vide for driver education for public high school students in the vari-
ous counties and Baltimore City. The Department of Education shall
apportion the revenues in the Fund to the various subdivisions on
the basis of the number of students enrolled in the driver training
program in the respective subdivisions. The balance of said funds
shall not revert to the general treasury, but shall be dedicated and
held for driver education.

91.

(A) The Department shall examine every person who applied
either for an original license or for a class of license higher than the
applicant has previously held, except as otherwise provided in this
Article. Such examination shall include a test of the applicant's eye-
sight, his ability to read and understand highway signs regulating,
warning and directing traffic, his knowledge of the traffic laws of this
State and safe driving practices; and shall include an actual demon-
stration of ability to exercise ordinary and reasonable control in
the operation of a motor vehicle and such further physical and men-
tal examination as the Department finds necessary to determine the
applicant's fitness to operate a motor vehicle safely upon the high-

ways. An applicant must appear in person at the main office of the

Department or at any place in the State which the Department may

designate. The applicant shall furnish a motor vehicle for the re-

quired driving test, which vehicle shall be a type appropriate to test

the applicant's ability to drive all vehicles which may be driven

under the class of license applied for. At the time he appears for the
driving test the applicant shall be accompanied by a person qualified
under the provisions of this Article to accompany a person with an

instruction and examination license while driving upon public high-

ways. The person so accompanying the applicant shall have in his

possession a valid driver's license. The Department is authorized to

promulgate rules and regulations relating to but not limited to an

applicant's visual acuity, ability to sign his her name, ability to

operate a motor vehicle without use of a