3306                                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                                        Ch. 698

Law authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to make

certain payments to certain scrap processors for the

destruction of certain automobiles formerly titled in this
State.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 13-802, 13-803, and 15-512

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

13-802.

The fee for a certificate of title issued under this title
is:

(1) For each vehicle subject to inspection under
Title 23 of this article - [$4] $3; and

(2) For each other vehicle - [$2] $1.

13-803.

[(a)] For the purpose of administering § 15-512 of this
article ("Payment for vehicles totally destroyed by scrap
processor") and § 25-207 of this article ("Abandoned vehicles:
Sale of vehicle; disposition of proceeds"), the Administration
may retain [and use $1 from each fee paid under § 13-802(1) or
(2) of this subtitle.

(b) (1) Money retained under this section] THE MONEY THAT
WAS [shall be] deposited in the State Treasury and accounted for
on the records of the State Comptroller in a special account [to
be] known as the Abandoned Vehicles Fund. The money shall be held
in this account for the purpose specified in [subsection (a) of]
this section.

[(2) If the money in the Abandoned Vehicles Fund
account exceeds the reserves that the Administration considers
necessary for purposes of the account, the Administration may
request the Comptroller to transfer the excess to the
Transportation Trust Fund.

(3) If the Abandoned Vehicles Fund account temporarily is
exhausted, claims against the account shall be paid from the
Transportation Trust Fund to the extent of any transfers
previously made to the Transportation Trust Fund under paragraph
(2) of this subsection.]