634 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 519

SECTION 1. Be It enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, 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 Ve-
hicles", as said section was amended by Chapters 185 and 211
of the Acts of 1941, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,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 Commissioner 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,
Hampstead, Betterton, Chestertown, Rock Hall, Brunswick,
City of Frederick, Emmitsburg, East New Market, Easton,
Oxford, St. Michaels, Elkton, Federalsburg, Gaithersburg,
Burkittsville, Ridgely, Denton, Greensboro or Galena, or by a
resident of any incorporated town or city in Allegany, Carroll,
Dorchester, Garrett, Prince George'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 i£ separately assessed apart from the assess-
ment 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 this section, however, shall be construed to pro-
hibit a registered motor vehicle dealer from transferring,
assigning or reassigning an assignment of title to any motor
vehicle legally repossessed, or taken in trade by said dealer as
a partial payment on the purchase of another motor vehicle
and the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall execute all such
applications for transfer, assignment or reassignment of
assignment of titles made by a registered motor vehicle dealer
provided said dealer has given to the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles proper notice of the receipt of said vehicles as required
by Section 155 of this Article when said applications are sub-
mitted upon proper forms furnished by the Commissioner.

SEC. 2. And lie it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved May 4, 1943.