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card: shall be conspicuously displayed on the tank truck to which it is
assigned and any dealer operating a tank truck in this State, conveying or
transporting motor fuel, without such license card, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not
less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dol-
lars, or to confinement in jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more
than thirty (30) days, or both.

The license certificate so issued by the Comptroller shall not be assign-
able, and shall be valid only for the dealer in whose name issued, and shall
be displayed conspicuously in the principal place of business of said dealer
in the State of Maryland.

The Comptroller shall keep and file all applications and bonds with an
alphabetical index thereof, together with a record of all licensed dealers.
Cited in holding valid coal ordinance of Baltimore City. Jacobs v. Baltimore, 172
Md. 363.

1933, ch. 218, sec. 213A. 1935, ch. 155.

247. Every dealer shall file with the Comptroller a bond in the ap-
proximate sum of three times the average monthly motor fuel tax due by
such dealer during the next proceeding ^] twelve calendar months under the
existing law of this State; provided that in no case shall bond be less than
One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, nor more than Twenty Thousand
($20,000.00) Dollars; provided further that any person becoming a dealer,
as heretofore defined, subsequent to the effective date of. this Act, or any
dealer who has not paid motor fuel taxes now imposed by law for the
twelve months next preceding the adoption of this Act, shall file a bond
in the minimum penalty of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars. Such
bond shall be in such form as may be approved by the Comptroller, shall
be executed by some Surety Company duly licensed to do business under
the laws of the State of Maryland, and be conditioned upon the prompt
filing of true reports and the payment of such dealer to the Comptroller
of. any and all motor fuel taxes which are now or which hereafter may be
levied or imposed by the State of Maryland together with any and all
penalties or interest thereon, and generally upon faithful compliance with
the provisions of this sub-title.

In the event that liability upon the bond thus filed by the dealer with
the Comptroller shall be discharged or reduced, whether by judgment
rendered, payment made or otherwise, or if in the opinion of the Comp-
troller any surety on the bond theretofore given shall have become unsatis-
factory or unacceptable, then the Comptroller may require the dealer to file
a new bond with satisfactory sureties in the same amount, failing which,
the Comptroller shall forthwith cancel the license certificate of said dealer.
If such new bond shall be furnished by said dealer as above provided, the
Comptroller shall cancel and surrender the bond of said dealer for which
such new bond shall be substituted.

In the event that upon hearing, of which the dealer ;shall be given (5)
days' notice in writing the Comptroller shall decide that the amount of the
existing bond is insufficient to insure payment to the State of Maryland
of, the amount of the motor fuel tax and any penalties and interest for
which said dealer is or may at any time become liable, then the dealer
shall forthwith, upon the written demand of the Comptroller file an addi-

¹ Evidently "preceding" intended.