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said sale, together with a full detailed description of said motor
vehicle or part thereof, shall be inserted in one or more daily news-
papers published in Baltimore City at least once each week for two
successive weeks prior to said sale; and provided further, that a
[registered] notice by certified mail shall be mailed at least ten days
prior to said sale to the owner, lien holder, if any, shown on the
records of the Motor Vehicle Commissioner of Maryland, or the
person, firm or corporation entitled to the possession of said motor
vehicle or part thereof, if his or its address be known, or if it can
be ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence. If said
address cannot be ascertained as above provided, then such notice
shall not be required to be given. Any excess in the amount of
the selling price of such motor vehicle, or part thereof, at said
sale, over and above the expenses thereof, and the amount of the
storage and necessary repair charges incurred by the Police Com-
missioner during the period during which the said motor vehicle, or
part thereof, was in his custody, and after the payment of all liens to
which said motor vehicle, or part thereof, may be subject, in the
order of their priority, shall be accounted for and deposited in the
Special Fund of the Police Department of Baltimore City. If the
owner, or the person, firm or corporation entitled to the possession
of said motor vehicle, or part thereof, shall present to the Police
Commissioner a claim for such excess at any time within three years
of the date of the sale, the Police Commissioner shall cause to be
paid from the Special Fund the amount of such excess to the person,
firm or corporation legally entitled thereto. If no claim for the excess
is made within three years from the date of the sale, such excess shall
become the property of the Special Fund of the Police Department in
the same manner as other revenues provided by Section 583 of [the]
this Article.

(b) The certificate of the Police Commissioner for Baltimore City
that he has sold any motor vehicle at public auction as above de-
scribed to a purchaser, shall constitute sufficient evidence of title to
any motor vehicle so sold in order to enable any such purchaser to
obtain a certificate of title and registration from the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles of Maryland.

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

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 655
(Senate Bill 462)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 236 (c),
236 (f) and 237 (d) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition and 1964 Supplement), title "Revenue
and Taxes", sub-title "State Department of Assessments and
Taxation", revising the classification of the several supervisors
of assessments, assistant supervisors of assessments, assessors,
assessors' aides, and other employees haying to do with assess-
ments, and relating generally to the classifications and compensa-
tion of such officials and employees.