certificate

etc.

cant's title and of any liens or encumbrances upon said motor vehicle, and such other information as the secretary of state may require. The secretary of state, if satisfied that the When applicant is the owner of such motor vehicle, or otherwise issued. entitled to have the same registered in his name, shall thereupon issue to the applicant an appropriate certificate of title. over his signature, authenticated by a seal to be procured and used for such purpose. Such certificate of title shall be delivered to the person applying therefor unless the applicant shall, in his application, on such form as the secretary of state shall prescribe, direct or require the delivery of said certificate to some other designated person, firm or corporation, in which case the secretary of state shall cause said certificate to be delivered or forwarded in accordance with the application. Said certificates shall be numbered consecu- Numbering. tively, beginning with number one, and shall contain such description and other evidence of identification of said motor vehicle as the secretary of state may deem proper, together with a statement of any liens or encumbrances which the application may show to be thereon. The charge for each Fee. original certificate so issued shall be one dollar, which charge shall be in addition to the charge for the registration of such motor vehicle. Said certificate shall be good for the life of the car so long as the same is owned or held by the original holder of such certificate, and shall not have to be renewed annually, or at any other time except as herein provided. Upon the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause to be printed copies of this act. and to mail to every person, to whom he has issued a certificate of registration for the year nineteen hundred twenty-one, one of such printed copies accompanied by a blank form of application for a certificate of title.

transfer.

SEC. 3. In the event of the sale or other transfer after Sale or October one, nineteen hundred twenty-one, of the ownership of a motor vehicle for which a certificate of title has been issued as aforesaid, the holder of such certificate shall endorse on the back of same an assignment thereof with warranty of title in form printed thereon with a statement of all liens or encumbrances on said motor vehicle, sworn to before a notary public or some other person authorized by law to take acknowledgments, and deliver the same to the purchaser or transferee at the time of the delivery to him of such motor vehicle. The purchaser or transferee, unless such person is a dealer licensed under section fourteen of this act, shall, within ten days thereafter, present such certificate, assigned as aforesaid, to the secretary of state, accompanied by a fee of one dollar, whereupon a new certificate of title shall be issued to the assignee: Provided, however, If such person Proviso. shall, in such manner and form as the secretary of state prescribes, authorize and direct the delivery of the certificate of title to some other designated person, firm or corporation, delivery shall be made accordingly. It shall be the duty of

Proviso.

Second hand dealers,

Application

for.

the secretary of state, in all certificates of title hereafter issued, to provide suitable space for such authorization. Said licensed dealer shall, on selling or otherwise disposing of said motor vehicle, execute and deliver to the purchaser thereof an affidavit of conveyance or assignment in such form as the secretary of state shall prescribe, to which shall be attached the assigned certificate of title received by such dealer. Thereupon the purchaser of said motor vehicle shall apply for and receive from the secretary of state a certificate of title. Said certificate, when so assigned and returned to the secretary of state, together with any subsequent assignments or reissues thereof, shall be retained by the secretary of state and appropriately filed and indexed, so that at all times it will be possible to trace title to the motor vehicle designated therein : Provided, When the ownership of any motor vehicle shall pass by operation of law, the person owning such motor vehicle may, upon furnishing satisfactory proof to the secretary of state of such ownership, procure a title to said motor vehicle regardless of whether a certificate of title has ever been issued.

SEC. 14. Licensing of second hand dealers. That after licensing of. the first day of January, nineteen hundred twenty-two, it shall be unlawful for any person to carry on or conduct in this state the business of buying, selling or dealing in used vehicles or parts thereof, unless and until he shall have received a license from the secretary of state authorizing the carrying on or conducting of such business. Such license shall be furnished annually by the secretary of state and shall run from the first day of January, nineteen hundred twenty-two, and annually thereafter for each year, beginning on the first day of January. The application for said license shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the said secretary of state and subject to such rules and regulations with respect thereto, as may be so prescribed by him. Such application shall be verified by oath or affirmation and shall contain a full statement of the name or names of the person or persons applying therefor, the name of the firm or copartnership with the names and places of residence of all the members thereof, if such applicant be a firm or copartnership, the name and residence of the principal officers, if the applicant be a body corporate or other artificial body, the name of the state under whose laws the corporation is organized, the location of the place or places at which such business is to be carried on and conducted, and said application shall contain such other relevant information as may be required by the secretary of state. It shall be accompanied by a statement of two reputable persons of the community in which the principal place of business is to be located, certifying to the good moral character of the person or persons applying for such license. Upon making such application the person applying therefor shall pay to the secretary of state a fee of five dollars. A license certificate shall be

Fee.

may make.

mental

keep record.

issued by the secretary of state in accordance with such application when the same shall be regular in form and in compliance with the provisions of this section, and such license, when so issued, shall entitle the licensee to carry on and conduct the business of buying and selling and dealing in used vehicles and parts thereof, for a period of one year from the first day of January of the current year. The sec- Rules, etc., retary of state shall have the power to make suitable rules and regulations for the issuance of such licenses to expire upon the first day of January of the succeeding year, when the application therefor shall be made during the current year, and upon payment of a license fee of three dollars, provided application is made after July first of any year. Any person conducting the business of buying, selling or Suppledealing in used vehicles and having received a license there license. for, shall, before removing any one or more of his places of business, or shall, before opening any additional places of business, apply to the secretary of state for, and obtain, a supplemental license, for which no fee shall be charged. Every such licensee shall keep a book or record in such form Licensee to as may be prescribed or approved by the secretary of state, in which he shall keep a record of the purchase, sale or exchange or receipt for the purpose of sale, of any second-hand vehicle or parts thereof, a description of such vehicles or parts, together with the name and address of the seller, of the purchaser, and of the alleged owner or other person from whom such vehicles or parts were purchased or received, or to whom they were sold or delivered, as the case may be. Such description in the case of motor vehicles shall also include the engine number, if any, the maker's number, if any, chassis number, if any, and such other numbers or identification marks as may be thereon, and shall also include a statement that a number has been obliterated, defaced or changed, if such is the fact. In the case of a trailer or semi-trailer, the record shall include the manufacturer's number, and such other numbers or identification marks as may be thereon. He shall also have in his possession a duly assigned certifi cate of title from the owner of said motor vehicle in accordance with the provisions of another section of this act, from the time when the motor vehicle is delivered to him until it has been disposed of by him. In the event that any such When motor vehicle is junked or is otherwise rendered unfit for junked, etc. further operation on the public highways of said state, it shall be the duty of the person possessing the certificate of title to immediately forward the same to the secretary of state, together with a statement in writing as to the manner

vehicle

of final disposition of such vehicle. In case a motor vehicle Sale to nontitled under this act is sold to a non-resident of this state, resident. the seller of such motor vehicle shall notify the secretary of state within ten days on forms prescribed by him for such purpose. Any person guilty of violating any of the provi- Penalty for sions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and

violation.

punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in any penal institution within this state for not more than three years, or both at the discretion of the court.

Approved May 14, 1927.

Title and sections amended.

[No. 172.]

AN ACT to amend the title and section two of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled, as amended, "An act to prohibit the taking, killing, trapping or molesting of certain furbearing animals at certain times and to prohibit the destruction or the molesting of the houses or holes of certain fur-bearing animals at all times", being section seven thousand five hundred eleven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen as last amended by act number eighty-nine of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The title and section two of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled, as amended, "An act to prohibit the taking, killing, trapping or molesting of certain fur-bearing animals at certain times and to prohibit the destruction or the molesting of the houses or holes of certain fur-bearing animals. at all times", being section seven thousand five hundred eleven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number eighty-nine of the public acts. of nineteen hundred twenty-five, are hereby amended to read as follows:

Closed seasons.

TITLE

An Act to prohibit the taking, killing, trapping or molesting of certain fur-bearing animals and to prohibit the possession of certain fur-bearing animals or parts thereof, at certain times, and to prohibit the destruction or the molesting of the houses or holes of certain fur-bearing animals at all times.

SEC. 2. No person shall take, trap, hunt, shoot, kill or molest or attempt to take, trap, hunt, shoot. kill or molest any otter, fisher, or marten from and including the first day of April to and including the thirty-first day of October of each year, nor any beaver, from and including the first day of April to and including the thirty-first day of January of each succeeding year; nor any skunk from and including the

first day of February to and including the fourteenth day of November of each year; nor any muskrat in the lower peninsula, from and including the sixteenth day of March to and including the fourteenth day of November and during the months of January and February of each year; nor in the upper pensinsula from and including the first day of April to and including the fourteenth day of November and during the months of January and February and the first fifteen days of March of each year; nor any raccoon from and including the first day of March to and including the fourteenth day of November of each year. No person shall catch, kill, injure or pursue with such intent a raccoon, except from six o'clock p. m. to six o'clock a. m., and at no time shall a raccoon be taken from its den. It shall be unlawful to use fire- Firearms, etc., unlawarms, spears, baited hooks, explosives, chemicals, mechanical ful to use. devices or smokers of any kind to kill, take or capture muskrats or mink, or to drive muskrats or other protected furbearing animals out of their holes or homes, nor shall any person have in possession the carcass or skin of any fur-bearing animals herein mentioned killed during the time when the killing thereof is by this act prohibited: Provided, That it Proviso. shall be unlawful to take, trap, hunt, shoot, kill or molest any beaver, otter, fisher, raccoon, or marten until the year nineteen hundred thirty: Provided further, That the con- Further servation commission is hereby authorized to issue permits proviso. to take and transport beaver at any time for scientific investigation and propagation: And provided further, That mink Further shall not be trapped within this state at any time when it proviso. shall be unlawful to trap muskrat and that the taking of mink shall not be otherwise prohibited.

Approved May 14, 1927.