3390                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                    Ch. 555

(b)  (1) The annual license fee to act as a resident
junk dealer shall be [ten dollars ($10.00)] $10 and as a
junk dealer's agent shall be [five dollars ($5.00)] $5; to
act as a "nonresident junk dealer" or a "nonresident junk
dealer's agent" who buys or solicits for the purchase of
junk within the State of Maryland shall be [one hundred
dollars ($100.00)] $100.

(2) (I) THE ANNUAL LICENSE FEE TO ACT AS A
RESIDENT SCRAP METAL PROCESSOR IS $10 AND AS A RESIDENT
SCRAP METAL PROCESSOR'S AGENT IS $5.

(II) THE ANNUAL LICENSE FEE TO ACT AS A
NONRESIDENT SCRAP METAL PROCESSOR OR A NONRESIDENT SCRAP
METAL PROCESSOR'S AGENT WHO BUYS OR SOLICITS FOR THE
PURCHASE OF SCRAP METAL WITHIN THE STATE OF MARYLAND IS
$100.

(c)  No nonresident junk dealer OR SCRAP METAL
PROCESSOR shall be permitted to maintain a fixed place of
business within the State but may purchase junk OR SCRAP
METAL from any registered resident junk dealer OR SCRAP
METAL PROCESSOR without complying with the provisions as
above outlined; but if [said] A nonresident junk dealer OR
SCRAP METAL PROCESSOR comes into the State of Maryland in
any vehicle, [said] SUCH nonresident junk dealer OR SCRAP
METAL PROCESSOR shall not be permitted to transport from
this State in [said] THAT vehicle any junk OR SCRAP METAL
purchased within this State unless there is compliance with
this subtitle,

(d)  (1) Every resident and nonresident junk dealer OR
SCRAP METAL PROCESSOR or agent OF ONE desiring a license in
compliance with this subtitle shall certify to the clerk of
the circuit court of the county in which the junk yard OR
SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY is located, or in which he
does business, his name and business address.

(2) The clerk of the court, upon payment of the
proper fees, shall issue such licenses numerically and shall
maintain a record setting forth the name and address of the
licensee, and the number of the license, and shall collect
therefor an issuing fee of $.50 per license. Such licenses
shall not be devisable and shall not be transferable.

235.

(a) It shall be unlawful for [any resident junk dealer
or agent or any nonresident junk dealer or agent as herein
defined] ANYONE LICENSED UNDER THIS SUBHEADING to barter,
purchase, exchange, buy or accept from any person, firm or
corporation any junk [as herein defined] OR SCRAP METAL,
without providing and keeping books and making [therein] at
the time of such purchase, exchange, receipt or acceptance,