MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1685

BY repealing

Article 66 1/2 — Vehicle Laws

Section 6—118

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws

Section 6-208 (a) and 16-113 (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 6-118 of Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle
Laws, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement
Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed:

Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws

[[6-118.]]

[Notwithstanding any other sections of this article,
if any person has been charged with a violation, other
than parking, under this article after July 1, 1968, has
been properly summoned for trial, and has failed to
appear for trial and the enforcement agency is unable to
apprehend him by warrant, the Department shall attach a
notation of this failure to appear to his driving record
and to his application for renewal or reinstatement, and
he shall not be entitled to a renewal or reinstatement of
his driver's license until he has answered the warrant
and appeared for trial.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections
6-208 (a) and 16-113(c) of Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement
Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and they are hereby
repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws
6-208.

(a) The Administration [shall] MAY not suspend a
driver's license or privilege to drive a motor vehicle on
the highways for a period of more than 1 year, but the