Marvin Mandel, Governor                          1549

heretofore or hereafter enacted, no city, county or other municipal
subdivision of the State shall have the right to make or enforce any
local law, ordinance, or regulation upon any subject for which pro-
vision is made in this article, or require any registration or li-
censing of motor vehicles or operators thereof in addition to the
registration and licensing herein prescribed, or impose upon the
owner or operator of any motor vehicle any tax, registration fee,
license fee, assessment, or charge of any kind for the use of a motor
vehicle upon any public highway or highways in this State.

(b)    The provisions of this article (except as herein otherwise
specifically provided) are intended to be exclusive of all local and
municipal legislation or regulations, upon the various subjects
with which this article purports to deal, and all public local laws,
ordinances, and regulations inconsistent or identical therewith or
equivalent thereto are hereby repealed; and the charters of all mu-
nicipal corporations of this State are modified so as to prohibit the
municipal corporations from making or enforcing any ordinance or
regulations in violation of this article.

(c)    Except as otherwise herein specifically provided, nothing in
this article shall be taken in any way to add to or detract from the
right of any person injured in his person or property by the neg-
ligent operation of a motor vehicle to sue and recover damages as
in the case of the negligent use or operation of other vehicles and
the violation of any provision of this article shall not be taken to
give any right of action to any individual who would not be entitled
to it in the absence of the provision, except as is otherwise herein
specifically provided.

(d)    No provision of this article shall be deemed as repealed by
any act hereafter passed unless the provision is expressly referred
to and repealed in terms or some other clear evidence given of the
intent on the part of the General Assembly to change the policy
of the State herein declared.

(e)    No public local laws heretofore enacted and no municipal
ordinance or regulation heretofore adopted or passed under author-
ity conferred by a public local law, relating to the regulation or
operation of taxicabs, shall be deemed to be invalid on the ground
that the acts contravened the policy of the State as to the regulation
of taxicabs and taxicab operators.

§ 15-102. Powers of local authorities.

(a) The provisions of this article shall not be deemed to prevent
local authorities with respect to streets and highways under their
jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of the police power
from:

(1)    Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles;

(2)    Regulating traffic by means of police officers or official
traffic-control devices;

(3)    Regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the
highways;

(4) Designating particular highways as one-way highways and
requiring that all vehicles thereon be moved in one specific direction;