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owner of a motor vehicle whose title certificate is
faulty, or destroyed, or any agent designated and
authorized by a unit of government to remove an abandoned
motor vehicle from public or private property, may
dispose of the motor vehicle to a wrecker or scrap
processor without the title and without notification
procedures of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, if
the motor vehicle is over eight years old and has no
engine or is [[other]] OTHERWISE totally inoperable. IN
THOSE CASES ONLY, A SCRAP PROCESSOR WHOSE PLANT IS
PHYSICALLY LOCATED AND OPERATING IN THIS STATE SHALL
[[MAY]] EXECUTE AN INDEMNITY AGREEMENT THAT SHALL BE
FILED WITH THE MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION. THE
INDEMNITY AGREEMENT SHALL CONTAIN THE NAME, ADDRESS AND
SIGNATURE OF THE PERSON DELIVERING THE VEHICLE. THE
INDEMNITY AGREEMENT AND THE MANUFACTURERS SERIAL OR
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER SHALL BE SATISFACTORY PROOF THAT
THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN DESTROYED AND SHALL BE ACCEPTABLE
FOR PAYMENT OF THE FULL BOUNTY AUTHORIZED BY SECTION
5-20 5 IF THE VEHICLE IDENTIFIED IN THE INDEMNITY
AGREEMENT WAS TITLED IN THIS STATE. OTHERWISE, FOR THE
PURPOSE OF ADMINISTERING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION,
THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5-205 SHALL NOT APPLY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 466
(House Bill 795)
AN ACT concerning

Calvert County — Sheriff and Treasurer

FOR the purpose of providing a pension for the Sheriff
and Treasurer of Calvert County after [[he]] each
has served a certain number of terns in office
adding numbering as appropriate, and clarifying the
language therein.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 2-309(f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Volume)