770 ARTICLE 56.

1927, ch. 118, sec. 212E.

212D. If any part or parts of Sections 212B-212D, or of any Section
thereof, shall be held to be unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall
not affect the validity of the remaining parts of said sections, or of any
section thereof, and the Legislature hereby declares that it would have
passed the remaining parts of said sections or of any section thereof, if it
had known that such part or parts thereof, or of any section thereof, would
be declared unconstitutional. ¹

1922, ch. 522, sec. 3. 1933, ch. 218, sec. 213.

213. It shall be unlawful for any dealer to receive, sell, use, or dis-
tribute any motor vehicle fuel or to engage in business within this State
unless such dealer is the holder of an uncancelled license issued by the
Comptroller to engage in said business. To procure such license every
dealer shall file with the Comptroller an application upon oath and in such
form as the Comptroller may prescribe, setting forth the name under which
such dealer is transacting business within the State of Maryland, the
names and addresses of the several persons constituting the firm or part-
nership, and, if a corporation, the corporate name under which it is
authorized to transact business, and the names and addresses of its prin-
cipal officers, resident general agent and attorney in fact. If such dealer
is an association of persons, firm, partnership or corporation organized
under the laws of another State, territory or county, if it has not already
done so, it must first comply with the laws of Maryland relating to the
transaction of its appropriate business therein.

Upon the filing of an application for a license, and concurrently there-
with, a bond of the character stipulated and in the amount provided for in
Section 213A of this sub-title shall be filed with the Comptroller. No
license shall issue upon any application unless accompanied by such a bond.

In the event that any application for a license certificate to transact busi-
ness as a dealer in the State of Maryland shall be filed by any person whose
license shall at any time theretofore have been cancelled for cause by the
Comptroller, or in case said Comptroller shall be of the opinion that such
application is not filed in good faith, or that such application is filed by
some person as a subterfuge for the real person in interest whose license
or registration shall theretofore have been cancelled for cause by said
Comptroller, then and in any of said events the Comptroller, after a hear-
ing, of which the applicant shall have been given five (5) days' notice in
writing and in which said applicant shall have the right to appear in
person or by counsel and present testimony, shall have and is hereby
given the right and authority to refuse to issue to such a person a license
certificate to transact business as a dealer in the State of Maryland.

Upon the filing of the application for a license, a filing fee of one dollar
($1. 00) shall be paid to the Comptroller.

The application in proper form having been accepted for filing, the

¹ Sec. 212D of ch. 118 of Acts of 1927 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.