l$3£j. LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1007

of State and County taxes on motor vehicles, the Department 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 Brent-
wood, Betterton, Chestertown, Rock Hall, Brunswick, City of
Frederick, Emmitsburg, East New Market, Easton, Oxford, St.
Michaels, Elkton, Gaithersburg, Burkittsville, Federalsburg,
Hampstead, or Galena, or by a resident of any incorporated
town or city in Allegany, Carroll, Dorchester, Garrett, Prince
George's or Washington Counties, unless it 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 trans-
ferred, have been paid, provided each motor vehicle is sep-
arately assessed apart from the assessment on any other motor
vehicle of 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 be-
coming due and owing under the levy of 1939 and thereafter.

281. DEALER'S EXEMPT FROM PAYMENT OF PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY TAX UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. Nothing in Section
277 and 278 and 280, however, shall be construed to prohibit a
registered motor vehicle dealer from transferring, assigning,
or reassigning an assignment of title to any motor vehicle
taken in trade by said dealer as a partial payment on the pur-
chase 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 Department of Motor
Vehicles shall execute all such applications for transfer, assign-
ment or reassignment of titles made by a registered motor
vehicle dealer provided said dealer has given to the Department
of Motor Vehicles proper notice of the receipt of said vehicles
as required by Section 55 of this Article when said applications
are submitted upon proper forms furnished by the Department.

282. PENALTIES FOR MISDEMEANOR, (a) It is a mis-
demeanor for any person to violate any of the provisions of
this Article unless such violation is by this Article or other
law of this State declared to be a felony.

(b) Every person convicted of a misdemeanor for a viola-
tion of any of the provisions of this Article for which another
penalty is not provided shall for the first conviction thereof be
punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars (f100)
or by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days.

283. PENALTY FOR FELONY. Except as herein otherwise
provided, any person who is convicted of a violation of any of