HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     2939

(4) Timely notice must be given by certified mail or
other appropriate means to any known claimants, at their last
known address, of the requirements of this section for making
claim for the return of seized moneys, or the seized moneys shall
not be forfeited as provided by paragraph (3) of this section.

(e) (1) In this section the following words have the
meanings indicated.

(2)  "Ultimate disposition" of charges and of
indictments includes acquittal, dismissal, guilty, probation
prior to judgment, pleas of guilty and of nolo contendere, a
stet, a nolle prosequi, and termination of the criminal
proceedings pursuant to appeal.

(3)  "Record of conviction" includes pleas of guilty
and of nolo contendere.

(4)  This section does not prohibit the trial judge
after an acquittal or dismissal from ordering immediate return of
all property seized.

(f)  The clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
shall, prior to the expiration of one month after June 1, 1966,
in those cases in which the record of conviction or convictions,
as hereinafter provided, is or are then final, make application
to the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County for an order that
all of such money, currency, and cash then in his custody, which
is deemed contraband under this section, shall be forfeited to
the county, if the trial or other ultimate disposition of such
charges or indictments resulted in a record of conviction being
entered against any of the persons so arrested or charged in
connection with which the said contraband has been so seized. If
said circuit court shall establish to its satisfaction that there
is no pending and undetermined suit or proceeding filed in any
court of competent jurisdiction against said clerk, said court
shall proceed so to order a forfeiture of such contraband to Anne
Arundel County. When any said order of forfeiture has become
final, the said clerk shall immediately pay over all of said

"contraband to Anne Arundel County.

297A.

Upon the seizure of contraband coin and currency pursuant to
§§ 264 and 297 of this article, the seizing authority shall cause
it to be immediately photographed and a record made of the serial
number of each paper currency. The photographs may be substituted
for the coin and currency as evidence in any criminal case.

The coin and currency when photographed and recorded shall
immediately be deposited by the seizing authority to the account
of. the county treasurer or director of finance of Baltimore City,
OR THE MUNICIPAL TREASURER OR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE OF THE
MUNICIPALITY, as the case may be.