Marvin Mandel, Governor                          1483

highway authorities or bridge or highway districts in highway main-
tenance, inspection, survey, or construction work. Any other vehicle
or combination of vehicles, when operated at a speed of 25 miles per
hour or less, may display such emblem. The emblem shall be mounted
on the rear of the vehicle, base down and at a height of not less than
three nor more than five feet from ground to base. Such emblem shall
consist of a truncated equi-lateral triangle having a minimum height
of 14 inches with a red reflective border not less than 1¾ inches in
width and a fluorescent orange center.

This emblem shall not be displayed except as permitted or required
by this section.

The emblem required by this subsection shall comply with current
standards and specifications of the American Society of Agricultural
Engineers.

After July 1, 1971, no new implement of husbandry designed or
intended by the manufacturer to be operated or moved at a speed
not in excess of 25 miles per hour shall be sold in this state unless it
is equipped by the manufacturer with a slow-moving vehicle emblem
as prescribed by this Section and .such an emblem shall thereafter be
displayed and maintained on such implement of husbandry while the
implement is able to be operated upon a public highway.

§ 11-805. Omitted.

§ 11-806. Special speed limitations.

(a)    No person shall drive a vehicle which is towing a house
trailer at a speed greater than a maximum of 45 miles per hour.

(b)    No person shall drive a school bus at a rate of speed greater
than 45 miles per hour while it is carrying any passengers to or from
school.

(c)    The State Roads Commission upon request from any local
authority shall, or upon its own initiative may, conduct an investiga-
tion of any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a
highway, and if it shall thereupon find that such structure cannot
with safety to itself withstand vehicles traveling at the speed other-
wise permissible under this subtitle, the commission shall determine
and declare the maximum speed of vehicles which such structure
can safely withstand, and shall cause or permit suitable signs stating
such maximum speed to be erected and maintained before each end
of such structure.

(d)    Upon the trial of any person charged with a violation of this
section, proof of such determination of the maximum speed by said
commission and the existence of said signs shall constitute conclusive
evidence of the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety
to such bridge or structure.

§ 11-807. Charging violations and rule in civil actions.

(a) In every charge of violation of any speed regulation in this
article the written complaint, or the summons or the written notice
to appear, shall specify the speed at which the defendant is alleged
to have driven, also the maximum speed applicable within the dis-
trict or at the location.