LAWS OF MARYLAND Special Session January 6, 1969

MARYLAND, Set:

At a Special Session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun and held in the City of Annapolis, on the sixth day of January, 1969, the Honorable Spiro T. Agnew, being Governor of the State, the following laws were enacted, to wit:

CHAPTER 1 (House Bill 1147)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 310(a) of Article 66¹/₂ of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Operation of Vehicles Upon Highways," providing that farm equipment, implements of husbandry and motor vehicles, transporting said equipment or implements, may operate on any street, road or highway without obtaining a permit from the district engineer of the State Roads Commission.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section 310(a) of Article 66¹/₂ of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Operation of Vehicles Upon Highways," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: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 hauling is less than two (2) 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, without the special permission of the State Roads Commission in the case of a

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