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door Advertising", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
to read as follows:

204.

(d) Additional information to determine whether safety affected;
issuance and fee; approval of zoning authorities if any exist.—Any
additional plats, information or data deemed necessary by the State
Roads Commission to determine whether the construction or erection
of said structure or advertisement would injuriously affect the safety
of public travel on State highways by dangerously obstructing the
clear view of the highway by one operating a motor vehicle thereon.

Upon receiving from the applicant the information, plats and data
hereinbefore in this section designated the State Roads Commission
shall issue for the next calendar year the permit applied for upon
payment by the applicant to the State Roads Commission of a fee
for the use of the State [equal to the sum of one-half of one cent
(˝ of 1 ct.) for each square foot of the surface used or to be used
for such purpose,] Roads Commission in the amount of two dollars
($2.00) for the first 100 square feet or less of billboard or other
structure on which advertising does or may appear, and for each
additional square foot of the surface used or to be used for such
purpose a sum of one cent (1 ct.) per square foot, provided that
no such permit shall be issued by the State Roads Commission, if the
maintenance, construction or erection of such advertisement would
injuriously affect the safety of public travel on State highways by
dangerously obstructing the clear view of the highway by one oper-
ating a motor vehicle thereon, and provided further that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to confer upon the State Roads
Commission the power to issue any such permits for the mainte-
nance, construction or erection of any such advertisement within
any area over which the General Assembly of Maryland has con-
ferred zoning powers in any board or body unless the application
for the permit provided for in this section shall be accompanied by
a certificate which satisfies the State Roads Commission that the
said board or body in whom such zoning powers are vested has ap-
proved of the maintenance, construction or erection of said advertise-
ment as applied for. [The minimum fee for any permit issued as
provided for in this section shall be one dollar ($1.00).]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 24, 1959.

CHAPTER 256
(House Bill 394)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section (a)
of Section 211 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.