ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 699

Court of the counties or to the Criminal Court of Baltimore
for the City of Baltimore.

SECTION 5. Any person who shall operate any business after
any license for the operation thereof has been revoked and
prior to the issuance of a new license under the provisions of
this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or to
imprisonment for thirty days.

Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 407.

AN ACT to repeal Section 157 of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Licenses," as repealed and re-
enacted by Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1918, and to enact
two new sections, the first to be known hereafter as Sec-
tion 157, providing for certificates of title of motor
vehicles, and imposing penalties for the violation of its
terms, and the second to be known, as Section 157-A, pro-
viding for the protection of identification numbers or
marks upon motor vehicles, and imposing penalties for the
violation of its terms.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 157 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Licenses," as the same was repealed and
re-enacted by Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1918, be and the same
is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That two new sections
be added to said Article 56 to be known respectively as Sec-
tion 157 and Section 157-A, and to read as follows.

CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP.

157. No certificate of the registration of any vehicle or
registration markers therefor, whether original issues or dupli-
cates, shall hereafter be issued or furnished by the Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles unless the applicant therefor shall
at the same time make application for and be granted an
official certificate of title of such motor vehicle, or shall pre-
sent satisfactory evidence that such a certificate has been
previously issued to the applicant covering such motor vehicle.
Said application shall be upon a blank form to be furnished