SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1437

GRANT A HEARING TO THE OPERATOR OR CHAUFFEUR
IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE REFUSAL OR
REVOCATION OF A LICENSE WOULD BE AN UNJUST
ACTION UPON THE OPERATOR OR CHAUFFEUR. FOLLOW-
ING THE HEARING, IF GRANTED, THE DEPARTMENT MAY
APPROVE, REJECT, OR MODIFY THE REFUSAL OR REVO-
CATION OF LICENSE. IN SUCH CASES WHEREIN THE DE-
PARTMENT REJECTS THE REFUSAL OR REVOCATION OF
LICENSE, THE RECORD OF SUCH REFUSAL OR REVOCA-
TION SHALL BE EXPUNGED FROM THE RECORD. IN SUCH
CASES WHEREIN THE DEPARTMENT MODIFIES THE RE-
FUSAL OR REVOCATION, THE RECORD OF THE OPERATOR
OR CHAUFFEUR SHALL BE MODIFIED ACCORDINGLY.

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

Approved May 4, 1967.

CHAPTER 666
(Senate Bill 216)

AN ACT to repeal Section 177 of Article 66½ of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1966 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles," sub-
title "Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund," and to enact new
Section 177 in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the section
repealed, to prohibit the filing of any notice or document under
the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund law which is false or
untrue, to prohibit operation of an uninsured vehicle without
payment of the uninsured vehicle fee, to penalize failure to pay
the fee and the failure to return registration certificates and plates,
and to provide penalties for these prohibitions and violations.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 177 of Article 66½ of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1966 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Unsatisfied
Claim and Judgment Fund," be and it is hereby repealed, and that
new Section 177 be and it is hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to stand
in the place of the section repealed, and to read as follows:

177.

(a)  It is unlawful for any person or any servant of any per-
son to file with the Fund, Board, Commissioner or Treasurer any
notice or document required under this subtitle which is KNOW-
INGLY false or untrue or contains any material misstatement of fact.

(b)  It is unlawful for any person to operate an uninsured motor
vehicle owned by him, or to permit such operation by another, with-
out having paid the fee prescribed in Section 151 of this article, and
it is also unlawful for the registered owner of any uninsured vehicle
to fail to pay the prescribed fee or to return his registration cer-
tificate and plates as required in Section 151 of this article. Failure
to pay the prescribed fee or to return registration certificates and