Marvin Mandel, Governor                         381

of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Supplement), title
"Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Administration—Registration—Titl-
ing," amending the motor vehicle laws of this State in order to
make certain corrections in the language and references thereof.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 23(4), 71(i), 71(j) (2), 88(i), 90(a), 92(h), and 92A
(a) of Article 66˝ of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Supple-
ment), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Administration—Registra-
tion—Titling," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

23.

(4) All motor vehicles owned and used by the government of the
United States, State of Maryland, or any city, town, village or county
of the State, and all motor vehicles owned and used for personal or
official purposes by accredited consular or diplomatic officers of
foreign governments, which officers are nationals of the state by
which they are appointed and are not citizens of the United States
and by any incorporated volunteer fire company incorporated in this
State or rescue squad and used for fire-fighting or ambulance pur-
poses and all motor vehicles owned and used personally by veterans
who have either lost or lost the use of one or both legs, or an arm
or a hand, or who are blind are hereby exempted from the provisions
of this subtitle requiring the payment of registration fees, but all
such vehicles shall display identification markers approved by the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and the identification markers or
other insignia on the vehicles of veterans who have either lost or lost
the use of one or both legs, or an arm or a hand, shall indicate that
they have been so designated or classified by the Veterans' Admin-
istration; and for the purposes of this subsection a person shall be
considered blind if he has a permanent impairment of both eyes of
the following status: central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in
the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual acuity of
more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral
field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of
visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than twenty
degrees in the better eye.

71.

(1)  Any owner of a vehicle, or body or chassis thereof, which
is to be scrapped, dismantled, or destroyed, who sells or transfers the
vehicle, or part thereof, to a wrecker or scrap processor as defined in
this [article] section, shall endorse an assignment and warranty of
title on the certificate of title for such vehicle, or body or chassis
thereof, and deliver the certificate of title at the time of sale or
transfer to the wrecker or scrap processor, whether said certificate
of title was issued by this State or any other state.

71.

(j)

(2)   From and after January 1, 1970, licenses for [wreckers] scrap
processors and [scrap processors] wreckers shall be issuable only to
those persons, firms, or corporations as [that term is defined in sub-