1350                               Laws of Maryland                          Ch. 534

shall maintain in permanent form a record of any other information
pertaining to the receipt or the issuance of temporary registration
plates or markers that the department requires. Each record shall
be kept for a period of at least 3 years from the date of entry of the
record. Every dealer shall allow full and free access to the records,
during regular business hours, to the authorized representatives of
the department and to police officers.

(c)    Every dealer who issues temporary registration plates or
markers, on the day that he issues such plates or markers, shall send
to the department a copy of the temporary registration plate or
marker application which has been executed by the person en-
titled to receive the plates or markers and delivered to the dealer
prior to the issuance of plates or markers to the person.

(d)    A registered dealer may issue, assign, transfer, or deliver
one set of temporary registration plates or markers only to the bona
fide purchaser of the vehicle whether or not the vehicle is to be
registered in Maryland, for whom the dealer, on request, shall trans-
mit forthwith to the department a written application for the annual
registration of the purchased vehicle with the prescribed fees there-
for. If a dealer issuing the temporary registration plates or markers
be not requested to forward the application for annual registration
of a vehicle sold the dealer shall notify the department at the time
he complies with subsection (c). A dealer shall not issue temporary
registration plates or markers to anyone possessed of annual regis-
tration plates for a vehicle that has been sold or exchanged, nor
shall any dealer lend to anyone or use on any vehicle that he may
own, temporary registration plates or markers. It shall be unlawful
for any person to issue any temporary registration plate or marker,
or plates or markers containing any misstatement of fact, or know-
ingly to insert any false information upon the face thereof.

(e)    Every dealer who issues temporary plates or markers shall
insert clearly and indelibly on the face of each temporary registra-
tion plate or marker the date of issuance and expiration and the
make and serial number of the vehicle for which issued.

(f)  If the commissioner finds that the provisions of this section
or the directions of the department are not being complied with by a
dealer, he may suspend, after a hearing, the right of the dealer to
issue temporary registration plates or markers.

(g)    Every person to whom temporary registration plates or
markers have been issued shall permanently destroy the tempo-
rary registration plates or markers immediately upon receiving the
annual registration plates from the department; but if the annual
registration plates are not received within 30 days of the issuance of
the temporary registration plates or markers, the owner, notwith-
standing, immediately upon the expiration of such 30 day period,
shall permanently, destroy the temporary registration plates or
markers.

(h) Temporary registration plates or markers shall expire and
become void upon the receipt of the annual registration plates from
the department, or upon the rescission of a contract to purchase a
motor vehicle, or upon the expiration of 30 days from the date of
issuance, depending upon whichever event first occurs. No refund or
credit for fees paid by the dealers to the department for temporary