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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="6-313" title_number="6" title_name="Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Process">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Motor vehicle” has the meaning stated in § 11–135 of the Transportation Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Nonresident” has the meaning stated in § 11–139 of the Transportation Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Nonresident’s privilege to drive” has the meaning stated in § 11–140 of the Transportation Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>By exercising a nonresident’s privilege to drive a motor vehicle in the State, a nonresident irrevocably appoints the Motor Vehicle Administration as agent to receive a subpoena, a summons, or other process that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Issued in an action that is related to an accident or collision involving a motor vehicle driven by the nonresident driver and in which the nonresident driver is named as a party; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Directed to the nonresident driver.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Service of process is sufficient service on a nonresident driver if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Service is made by the personal delivery and leaving of a copy of the process, with a certification of the last known address of the nonresident driver, with the Motor Vehicle Administration;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A fee for service of process is paid to the Motor Vehicle Administration;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Motor Vehicle Administration sends a copy of the process by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the nonresident driver at the nonresident driver’s last known address; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Motor Vehicle Administration files an affidavit of compliance with the provisions of this section with the clerk of the court in which the action is pending.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Motor Vehicle Administration shall provide a copy of the affidavit of compliance to the party seeking service.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The party seeking service shall send by certified mail, return receipt requested, a copy of the affidavit of compliance to the motor vehicle insurer of the nonresident driver.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Motor Vehicle Administration shall keep a record of all process served under this section that shows the date and hour of service on the Administration by the party seeking service.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>When the certified return receipt is returned to the Motor Vehicle Administration, the Administration shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Deliver it to the party seeking service; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Keep a record of the date of its receipt and the date of its delivery to the party seeking service.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Motor Vehicle Administration is authorized to establish and collect a reasonable fee to recover the Administration’s costs under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
