Marvin Mandel, Governor                       1701

place and terms of the sale, together with a detailed description of the
vehicle or part thereof, is inserted in one or more newspapers of
general circulation in the city or county where the sale is to take
place, at least once each week for two successive weeks prior to the
sale.

(p) (T) The proceeds of sale shall be applied first to payment of all
proper expenses of the proceedings for forfeiture and sale including
expenses of seizure, maintenance of custody, advertising and court
costs; secondly, to payment of the balance due on a lien (if any).
The balance (if any) shall be deposited in the general funds of the
State.

(q) (U) Any sums realized on any bond posted to regain posses-
sion of the vehicle shall be applied as provided for proceeds of sale
except that no such sums shall be paid in satisfaction of any lien on
the vehicle.

(r)) (V) Any sale ordered pursuant to this section shall be made
for cash and vest in the purchaser a clear and absolute title to the
motor vehicle sold.

(s) (W) This section applies to motor vehicles as the term is
defined in Article 66½ of this Code.

      (t) No motor vehicle used by any person in the transaction of

business as a common carrier shall be subject to seizure and for-

feiture under the provisions of this section unless it appears that the

owner and any other person in charge of the motor vehicle was a
consenting party to the perpetration of the felony in which the

motor vehicle was used.

(u) No motor vehicle shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture

under the provisions of this section by reason of any act or omission
established by the owner thereof to have been committed or omittted

unlawfully in the possession of a person other than the owner in

violation of the criminal laws of the United States, or of any state.

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(a) The following shall be subject to forfeiture and no property
right shall exist in them:

(1) All controlled dangerous substances which have been manu-
factured, distributed, dispensed, acquired, or possessed in violation of
the provisions of this subheading;

(2) All raw materials, products and equipment of any kind which
are used, or intended for use, in manufacturing, compounding,
processing, delivering, importing or exporting any controlled danger-
ous substance in violation of the provisions of this subheading;

(3) All property which is used, or intended for use, as a container
for property described in paragraphs (a) (1) and (2);

(4) All conveyances including aircraft, vehicles, or vessels, but

not motor vehicles subject to Section 581A of this title, which are

used, or intended for use, to transport, or in any manner to facilitate
the transportation, sale, receipt, possession, or concealment of prop-
erty described in (a)(1) or (2), except that:

[(a)] (i) No conveyance used by any person as a common car-

rier in the transaction of business as a common carrier shall be