HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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15-512.

(a)  The Administration shall pay $16 for each vehicle that
formerly was titled in this State and that is completely
destroyed by a scrap processor.

(b)  (1) The payment required by this section shall be made
on presentation by the scrap processor to the Administration of:

(i) The certificate of title or other
documentary evidence of ownership acceptable to the
Administration;

(ii) The manufacturer's serial number or
vehicle identification number plate;

(iii) Satisfactory proof that the vehicle is
completely destroyed; and

(iv) Any other information that the
Administration requires.

(2) The Administration shall require satisfactory
proof of the date on which a vehicle was destroyed. The
Administration may not pay for 140 vehicle destroyed by any scrap
processor before [July 1, 1970] JUNE JULY 1, 1984.

(c)  (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this
subsection, the Administration may make the payment required by
this section only to a licensed scrap processor.

(2) If ownership of the destroyed vehicle was
transferred to the licensed scrap processor by a licensed
automotive dismantler and recycler, the Administration shall pay
50 percent of the amount required to be paid by this section to
the automotive dismantler and recycler and 50 percent to the
scrap processor.

(d)  If one of the counties of this State receives
reimbursement for expenses incurred in selling a vehicle under
Title 25, Subtitle 2 of this article, the Administration shall
make the payment required by this section even if the destroyed
vehicle never was titled in this State.

[(e) The payments provided for in this section shall only
be made when there are sufficient funds to make such payments in
the Abandoned Vehicle Fund established under § 13-803 of this
article, as replenished under the provisions of § 13-803(b)(3) of
this article with moneys previously paid from the Abandoned
Vehicle Fund to the Transportation Trust Fund. After payments are
suspended because of insufficient funds, the payments shall
resume only when the Administration has sufficient funds to meet
what was the average monthly demand for payments prior to the
suspension of payments.