HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1499

(1939 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Motor Ve-
hicles", sub-heading "Fees for Registration of Motor Ve-
hicles", as said section was amended by Chapter 185 of
the Acts of 1941, including the incorporated towns in
Queen Anne's County within the provisions of said sec-
tion requiring the payment of municipal taxes levied
on motor vehicles by said towns before license may be
issued or title transferred by the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 160 of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title
"Motor Vehicles", sub-heading "Fees for Registration of
Motor Vehicles", as said section was amended by Chapter
185 of the Acts of 1941, be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

160. In addition to the provisions contained in Section
159, with reference to the requirement of the payment of
State and County taxes on motor vehicles, the Commission-
er of Motor Vehicles is hereby authorized and directed to
refuse to issue or transfer any plate or marker, certificate
of registration or title, for any motor vehicles owned by a
resident of Brentwood, Betterton, Chestertown, Rock Hall,
Oakland, Brunswick, City of Frederick, Emmitsburg, East
New Market, Easton, Oxford, St. Michaels, Elkton, Gaith-
ersburg, Burkittsville, Mountain Lake Park, Federalsburg,
or Galena, or by a resident of any incorporated town or city
in Allegany, Carroll, Dorchester, Prince George's, Queen
Anne's or Washington Counties, unless he is satisfied that
all municipal taxes due and owing on the motor vehicle
described in the certificate of registration or title so to be
issued or transferred, have been paid, provided each motor
vehicle is separately assessed apart from the assessment
on any other motor vehicle or kind or class of assessable
property, and provided the tax to be levied on such motor
vehicle is permitted to be paid separate and apart from the
payment of all other taxes, and provided this section shall
apply only in case of taxes becoming due and owing under
the levy of 1939 and thereafter.

Nothing in Sections 159, 159-A and 160 however, shall
be construed to prohibit a registered motor vehicle dealer
from transferring, assigning, or reassigning an assign-
ment of title to any motor vehicle taken in trade by said
dealer as a partial payment on the purchase of another
motor vehicle provided the title to the motor vehicle so
purchased is issued in the same name as the title to the
motor vehicle traded in, and the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles shall execute all such applications for transfer,