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term is defined in Section 9 of Article 23 A of this Code, as amended
from time to time, is delinquent in the payment of municipal taxes
or charges levied against the property, the appropriate municipal
official charged with the collection of taxes shall notify the tax
collector of the county of the unpaid taxes or charges on the prop-
erty. If the procedures of this subtitle are not instituted by the
county tax collector within a period of thirty (30) days after re-
ceipt of a notice from the municipal tax collector, the municipal tax
collector is authorized at any time after the expiration of the thirty
(30) day period to utilize the provisions and procedures of this
subtitle for the sale of the property for unpaid municipal taxes or
charges to the same extent that these provisions and procedures are
available to county tax collectors.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved March 11, 1965.

CHAPTER 132
(House Bill 64)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 134 (c) of
Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Supple-
ment), title "Motor Vehicles", subtitle "Motor Vehicle Financial
Responsibility", amending the laws concerning motor vehicle
financial responsibility in order to correct an error in the law
relating to injury to or destruction of property in a motor vehicle
accident.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 134(c) of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", subtitle "Motor
Vehicle Financial Responsibility", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments to read as follows:

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(c) Proof shall be provided in an amount not less than five
thousand ($5,000.00) dollars because of injury to or destruction of
property of others in any [once] one accident. Except that for taxi-
cabs not operating under permit of the Public Service Commission and
commercial motor vehicles for hire, the minimum amount of proof of
financial responsibility shall be, in lieu of the amount above specified,
not less than ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved March 11, 1965.