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Session Laws, 1929
Volume 572, Page 919   View pdf image (33K)
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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 919

session or under the control of the Montgomery County Police
and to deposit the funds derived from said sale or sales in the
County Treasury to the credit of the Police Fund; provided
that the said Chief of Police before selling any motor vehicle
as herein provided shall make a reasonable effort to ascertain
the owner of said motor vehicle and shall, if the owner and
his residence be known, mail a registered notice to the said
owner at least ten days prior to said sale, and if any owner
shall be so notified and shall fail to take possession of any
such motor vehicle within ten days after said notice shall be
mailed then the Chief of Police of Montgomery County shall
sell the same at public auction as herein provided; and pro-
vided further that if the owner of any such motor vehicle be
unknown or if his residence be unknown to the Chief of
Police or if said owner shall fail to take possession of any
motor vehicle as herein provided, then said Chief of Police
shall advertise once in some newspaper printed and published
in Montgomery County that on some day to be named in said
advertisement not less than ten days after the publication
thereof, that he will offer for sale at public auction any such
motor vehicle, abandoned, stolen, lawfully seized or unclaimed
as hereinabove set forth, which advertisement shall set forth
the time, place and terms of said sale, together with a de-
tailed description of said motor vehicle.

SEC. 2. And lie it further enacted, That the certificate of
the Chief of Police of Montgomery County that he has sold
any motor vehicle at public auction to a purchaser, shall con-
stitute sufficient evidence of title to any motor vehicle so sold,
in order to enable any such purchaser to obtain a certificate of
Title and Registration from the Commissioner of Motor Ve-
hicles of Maryland.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of
any sale of any motor vehicle as herein authorized shall be
delivered by the Chief of Police of Montgomery County to the
Treasurer of Montgomery County, who shall pay therefrom
the expenses of said sale, the amount of storage and repair
charges incurred, and all liens thereon in order of their
priority, if the same be ascertained or presented to said Treas-
urer within 30 days of said sale, and the amount in excess of
said charges to the owner of said motor vehicle, provided that
said owner shall present a claim to the said Treasurer for
such excess within one year from the date of sale. If no
claim for such excess is made within one year of the date of


 

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