LICENSES. 755

said Commissioner when application is made for a certificate of title and
registration of the said vehicle; and no certificate of title or registration
marker shall be issued for any such vehicle unless and until such a permit
is so surrendered, or its absence satisfactorily accounted for. In the event
the applicant so furnishing such bond transfers a defective title to such
motor vehicle under such permit, it shall be the duty of the said Com-
missioner to assign the said bond to the person or persons who may have
been injured by reason of such defective title, and such assignee shall
then have the same rights thereunder as would have attended had the said
bond been given to such assignee.
See sec. 72CC.

PART V.

Enforcement of Motor Vehicle Laws—Arrest, Bail, Trial
and Appeal.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 204. 1912, sec. 158. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec: 158.
1927, ch. 520, sec. 204. 1929, ch. 477. 1933, ch. 384.

204. In case any person shall be taken into custody because of a viola-
tion of any of the provisions of this sub-title, he shall forthwith be taken
in the counties of this State before the nearest Justice of the Peace,
committing Magistrate or Police Justice of the county in which the offense
is committed, or if in Baltimore City before the Justice of the Peace of
the Traffic Court, and be entitled to an immediate hearing; and if such
hearing cannot then be had, he shall be released from custody on giving
bond or undertaking executed by a fidelity or surety company authorized
to give such bonds in this State, or by a person or persons acceptable as
security or securities by said Magistrate or Police Justice, such bond or
undertaking to be in amount equal to the maximum amount prescribed
as the fine for such offense, and to be conditioned for his appearance at
the time and place set for the hearing of the charges preferred against
him, or on giving his personal undertaking to appear as aforesaid secured
by the deposit of a sum equal to the maximum amount prescribed as the
fine for such offense, and in case such bond or undertaking shall not be
given or deposit made as aforesaid, the provisions of law in reference to
bail in cases of misdemeanor shall apply. Provided, however, that if any
person arrested for the violation of any of the provisions of this sub-title
or of any public local law or of any municipal ordinance or police regula-
tion of Baltimore City, or of any incorporated town or city in Maryland
regulating traffic, is a resident of the State of Maryland and a resident of
a county or the City of Baltimore, other than that in which the arrest is
made, or is a resident of the county or the City of Baltimore in which
the arrest is made, such person shall have the right to demand and receive,
and it shall be the duty of the officer or officers arresting such person to
inform him of his right to make such demand and to comply with such
demand if made, a summons requiring him to appear upon a day to be