964 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 446
remain so suspended and shall not be renewed, nor shall any
motor vehicle be thereafter registered in his name while any
such judgment remains unstayed, unsatisfied and subsisting
and until every such judgment is satisfied or discharged and
until the said person gives proof of his ability to respond in
damages as required in Section 187A hereof, for future acci-
dents. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, or of the
court where it has no clerk, in which any such judgment is
rendered, to forward immediately after the expiration of said
thirty (30) days, as aforesaid, upon request of the judgment
creditor, to the Commissioner a certified copy of such judg-
ment or a transcript thereof, as aforesaid. In the event the
defendant is a non-resident, it shall be the duty of the Com-
missioner to transmit to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
or officer in charge of the issuance of operators' permits and
registration certificates of the State or Province of which
the defendant is a resident, a certified copy of the said judg-
ment. If after such proof has been given, any other such
judgment shall be recovered against such person for an acci-
dent occurring before such proof was given, but after Jan-
uary 1, 1932, such license or licenses and certificate or cer-
tificates shall again be and remain so suspended, and no other
such license or certificate shall be issued to such person while
any such judgment remains unsatisfied and subsisting, as
aforesaid.
Provided, however, anything in this sub-title to the con-
trary notwithstanding, that
(1) When $5, 000 has been credited upon any judgment or
judgments rendered in excess of that amount for personal
injury to or the death of one person as the result of any one
accident; or
(2) When, subject to the limit of $5, 000 for any one person
so injured or killed, the sum of $10, 000 has been credited upon
any judgment or judgments rendered in excess of that amount
for personal injury to or the death of more than one person as
the result of any one accident; or
(3) When $1, 000 has been credited upon any judgment or
judgments rendered in excess of that amount for damage to
property as the result of any one accident; resulting from the
ownership, maintenance, use or operation of a motor vehicle,
then and in such event, such payment or payments shall be
deemed a satisfaction of such judgment or judgments for the
purposes of this section only.
And provided further, that a judgment debtor to whom this
section applies may, for the sole purpose of giving authority to
the Commissioner to authorize the judgment debtor to operate
a motor vehicle thereafter, on due notice to the judgment
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