HARRY HUGHES, Governor

873

[63-3.

The County Inspector shall perform such duties of
inspection or such other duties as may be required by law or
may be directed of him by the County Commissioners or Board
of License Commissioners, as the case may be, respecting
taxicabs, building permits, alcoholic beverages, trailers
and trailer camps.]

133-2.

In order to protect the public health, safety and
welfare of the citizens of St. Mary's County and other
persons who may use taxicab facilities therein, the County
Commissioners of St. Mary's County are hereby authorized and
empowered to enact, amend and repeal resolutions, to fix
requirements for ownership and operation of taxicabs in St.
Mary's County and to provide for inspection and licensing of
taxicabs, their owners and operators, provided that all
necessary duties of inspection shall be performed by the
office of County [Inspector] SHERIFF. The annual license
fees set by the County Commissioners pursuant to the power
given them by this section shall not be less than fifty
dollars ($50.) for the first taxicab owned and operated by
any person and twenty-five dollars ($25.) for each
additional taxicab owned and operated by said person. The
regulation herein provided for the taxicab industry in St.
Mary's County shall be in addition to any regulation by the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of Maryland or the Public
Service Commission of Maryland. However, any applicant
seeking a license for a taxicab who has not been in the
taxicab business in St. Mary's County for at least one (1)
year prior to his application shall, before the County
Commissioners pass upon his application, obtain a written
permit from the Public Service Commission. Said permit
shall be issued by the Public Service Commission only upon
written application and only if in its judgment, after
investigation, the granting of the permit would be for the
public welfare and convenience. Any person, firm or
corporation subject to this chapter who shall be aggrieved
by any resolution of the County Commissioners of St. Mary's
County, enacted pursuant to the authority herein conferred,
may commence an action in the Circuit Court of St. Mary's
County against the County Commissioners to vacate and set
aside any such resolution on the ground that the regulation,
practice, act or service established by such resolution is
unreasonable or unlawful. The decision of the Circuit Court
shall be appealable to the Court of Appeals of Maryland by
either party, provided that such appeal is entered within
twenty (20) days after the judgment of the Circuit Court is
rendered.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.