30 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 30

CHAPTER 30.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
187B of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1935
Supplement), title "Licenses", sub-title "Motor Vehicles",
sub-heading "Liability—When Operator and/or Owner Re-
quired to Give Security For", providing that discharge in
bankruptcy or under insolvency proceedings shall not re-
lieve the operator or chauffeur and/or owner from the obli-
gation to satisfy a judgment for damages on account of
personal injuries or to property before having his license
renewed or his certificate of registration restored.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 187B of Article 56 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Licenses", sub-title
"Motor Vehicles", sub-heading "Liability—When Operator
and/or Owner Required to Give Security For", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

187B. The operator's and/or chauffeur's license and all of
the registration certificates of any person, in the event of his
failure within thirty (30) days thereafter, to satisfy any judg-
ment which shall have become final, by expiration without ap-
peal of the time within which appeal might have been per-
fected or by final affirmance on appeal, rendered against him
by a court of competent jurisdiction in this State or in any
other State or the District of Columbia, or in any District
Court of the United States, or by a court of competent juris-
diction in any Province of the Dominion of Canada, for dam-
ages on account of personal injury, including death, or damage
to property in excess of fifty dollars ($50. 00) resulting from
the ownership, maintenance, use or operation hereafter of a
motor vehicle shall be forthwith suspended by the Commis-
sioner upon receiving a certified copy or transcript of such
final judgment from the court in which the same was rendered
showing such judgment or judgments to have been still un-
satisfied more than thirty (30) days after the same became
final, as aforesaid, and shall remain so suspended and shall
not be renewed, nor shall any motor vehicle be thereafter reg-
istered in his name while any such judgment remains un-
stayed, unsatisfied and subsisting and until every such judg-
ment is satisfied or discharged and until the said person gives
proof of his ability to respond in damages as required in Sec-
tion 187A hereof, for future accidents and discharge in
bankruptcy or under insolvency proceedings shall not re-
lieve such person, operator or chauffeur from the obligation
to satisfy such judgment before having his license renewed