J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      293

CHAPTER 158
(Senate Bill 279)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 34 and
35 of Article 63 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edi-
tion), title "Mechanics' Lien", sub-title "Boats and Vessels", pro-
viding a lien for the storage or dockage of boats or vessels and the
manner of recording such lien.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 34 and 35 of Article 63 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Mechanics' Lien", sub-title "Boats
and Vessels", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

34.

All boats or vessels of any kind whatsoever used or intended to be
used on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and other waters of this State, as car-
riers of freight or passengers, and all other boats or vessels belong-
ing in this State shall be subject to a lien and bound for the payment
thereof as preferred debts for all debts due to boat builders, mechanics,
merchants, farmers or other persons, from the owners, masters or
captains, or other agents of such boats or vessels for materials fur-
nished or work done in the building, repairing or equipping the same,
or for providing storage or dockage for any such boat or vessel.

35.

No person shall be entitled to a lien under Section 34 unless he
shall, within six months from the commencement of the building,
repairing, equipping or refitting or the providing of dockage and
storage of such boat or vessel, deliver to the clerk of the circuit court
for the county where the building, repairing, equipping or refitting
was done, or the boat was stored or docked or the clerk of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City, if done in the City of Baltimore, an account
or statement verified by the oath of the claimant taken and sub-
scribed before some justice of the peace or other officer authorized
to administer an oath, setting forth the names of the claimant and
debtor; and, if the debt was not contracted by the owner but by his
agent, the name of such agent, the name or other certain description
of the boat or vessel and the place where built, repaired, equipped
[or] refitted, stored or docked and the particulars or items of the
claim or debt; and which account or statement shall be redelivered
by such clerk to the party filing the same after it has been recorded
as provided, IN SECTION 36.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That this Act shall take effect June 1, 1963.

Approved March 29, 1963.

CHAPTER 159
(Senate Bill 280)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 32 (b) of
Article 78 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),