MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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Laws, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 66 1/2 — Vehicle Laws

6-405.

The [Commissioner] ADMINISTRATOR shall send a
warning letter to each licensee charged with 3 points;
for 5 points, he shall call in the licensee for a
conference [provided however] EXCEPT that holders of
Class A, B, or C licenses [shall] MAY not be called in
until accumulating 8 points, [in the event] IF they
submit evidence acceptable to the [Department]
ADMINISTRATION that they are professional drivers; FOR 8
points, the license shall be suspended; and for 12 points
the license shall be revoked. Except as provided in §
6—406, when any licensee has received 8 points, the
[Commissioner] ADMINISTRATOR shall issue a notice of
suspension, and when any licensee has received 12 points
the [Commissioner] ADMINISTRATOR shall issue a notice of
revocation. Each notice shall be personally served or
sent by registered or certified mail, state the duration
of the suspension or revocation, and advise the licensee
of his right to request in writing within 10 days after
notice is sent by the [Commissioner] ADMINISTRATOR to the
licensee (Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays
excepted), a hearing before the [Commissioner]
ADMINISTRATOR. Each notice of suspension or revocation
shall be effective beginning 10 days after the notice is
forwarded to the licensee, unless a hearing is requested
as provided above. The duration of the initial
suspension shall not be less than 2 days nor more than 30
days, and the duration of any subsequent suspension shall
be for not less than 15 days and not more than 90 days.
[If a] A license [is suspended or] revoked [as in] UNDER
this section [provided] or [suspended or revoked as in] §
6—406 [hereafter provided, the license shall] MAY not be
reinstated unless the former licensee shall have first
passed to the satisfaction of the [Department]
ADMINISTRATION a reexamination of the type [required by
Part I for the issuance of an original license] SPECIFIED
IN § 6-110 (A) OF THIS ARTICLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 431
(House Bill 774)