LICENSES 2345

wick, City of Frederick, Emmitsburg, East New Market, Easton, Oxford,
St. Michaels, Elkton, Mountain Lake Park, Federalsburg or Galena, or
by a resident of any incorporated town or city in Allegany, Carroll, Dor-
chester, Prince George's or Washington Counties, unless he is satisfied that
all municipal taxes due and owing on the motor vehicle described in the
certificate of registration or title so to be issued or transferred, have been
paid, provided each motor vehicle is separately assessed apart from the
assessment on any other motor vehicle or kind or class of assessable prop-
erty, and provided the tax to be levied and such motor vehicle is permitted
to be paid separate and apart from the payment of all other taxes, and
provided this section shall apply only in case of taxes becoming due and
owing under the levy of 1939 and thereafter.

Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to prohibit a regis-
tered motor vehicle dealer from transferring, assigning or reassigning an
assignment of title to any motor vehicle legally repossessed, or taken in
trade by said dealer as a partial payment on the purchase of another
motor vehicle and the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall execute all
such applications for transfer, assignment or reassignment of assignment
of titles made by a registered motor vehicle dealer provided said dealer has
given to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles proper notice of the receipt
of said vehicles as required by Section 155 of this Article when said appli-
cations are submitted upon proper forms furnished by the Commissioner.

See notes to sec. 159.

Transfer of Ownership.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 185. 1912, sec. 142. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 142. 1920,
ch. 506, sec. 142. 1927, ch. 520, sec. 185.

161. Upon the transfer of ownership of any motor vehicle, its certifi-
cate of registration and the right to use the number plates or markers afore-
said shall expire, and the registration markers shall be removed at the time
of the transfer of possession, unless said owner shall give the purchaser
written permission to use said markers for a period of five days, as pro-
vided in Section 193 hereof. In such latter case it shall be the duty of
the purchaser to remove said markers promptly at the expiration of such
five days and return them either to the original owner of the motor vehicle
or to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and it shall be unlawful for the
purchaser or any person other than the person to whom such markers were
originally issued to have the same in his possession after the expiration of
such five days, whether in use or not; provided, however, that in the case
of a transfer of ownership, the original owner may register another motor
vehicle under the same number upon payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00)
where such motor vehicle is of less or equal horsepower or tonnage as that
originally registered; or upon payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00) and
the difference between the fee originally paid and that due, in case the new
motor vehicle be properly registered in a higher class.

See notes to sec. 147.

License to Operators.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 186. 1912, sec. 143. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 143. 1920,

ch. 506, sec. 143.

162. No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon any highway of
this State until he first shall have obtained a license for the purpose.
The Commissioner shall require an actual demonstration of the qualifica-