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addition to any other] all fees required by this article, the Depart-
ment shall issue for said passenger motor vehicle special registration
plates upon which shall be inscribed in letters and numerals not less
than three inches high and in strokes of not less than one-quarter
inch in width the letters VFW followed by appropriate letter and
numerals in lieu of the numerals required to be displayed on such
registration plates under other provisions of this article.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 450
(Senate Bill 230)

AN ACT to add a new Section 20 to Article 1 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1966 Supplement), title "Rules of
Interpretation," to follow immediately after Section 19 thereof,
providing for the alternate use of registered mail and of certified
mail and relating generally to the application of these terms in the
public general and public local laws of this State, in the resolutions
or ordinances of the several political subdivisions of this State, and
in the rules, regulations, or directives of departments or other
agencies of the State or of one of its political subdivisions.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new Section 20 be and it is hereby added to Article 1 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1966 Supplement),
title "Rules of Interpretation," to follow immediately after Section
19 thereof, and to read as follows:

20.

The term "registered mail" when used (1) in any section of this
Code or of any code of public local laws, (2) in any municipal
charter, (3) in any resolution or ordinance of a board of county
commissioners or county council of a county, (4) in any resolution or
ordinance of the mayor and council, by whatever name known, of a
municipal corporation, or (5) in a rule, regulation, or directive of a
department, board, commission, or other agency of this State or of
one of its political subdivisions, includes and may be applied as the
term "certified mail." Both terms mean the uses, procedures, and
fees provided and generally referred to by the United States Post
Office Department. A provision in any such law, charter, resolution,
ordinance, rule, regulation, or directive, for the use of one type of
such mail, may be interpreted and applied to authorize the use of
the other type of such mail as an alternate.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.