1064                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND                              Ch. 405

CHAPTER 405

(House Bill 666)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws — Special Mobile Equipment

FOR the purpose of [[allowing the Motor Vehicle
Administration to designate vehicles as special
mobile equipment; requiring registration of this
equipment and display of the registration plates
issued for it]] making certain changes to the

definition of special mobile equipment; requiring

the owner or operator of special mobile equipment to
be registered; requiring special mobile equipment to
display plates issued to the owner or operator ;
providing fees for registration; correcting certain
references and generally relating to special mobile
equipment.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws

Section 1-187 and 3-402 (a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle Laws

Section 3-603.1 and 3-816.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 1-187 and 3-402(a) of Article 66
1/2 — Vehicle Laws, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1970 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they
are hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article 66 1/2 — Vehicle Laws

1-187.

(A) Special mobile equipment means [[every]] A
vehicle THAT IS:

(1) not [designed or] used primarily for
[the] HIGHWAY transportation of persons or property [and
incidentally];

(2) operated or moved over [the highways,
including farm tractors, road construction or maintenance