Automobile purchases; transfer of title; penalty.

The purchaser of an automobile shall within 10 days after transfer of title to him or her, have the transfer of title made on the records contained in the office of the commissioner of licenses; should the purchaser fail to so do he or she shall at the time his or her automobile is assessed for the preceding year pay to the commissioner of licenses the sum of one dollar ($1) as a penalty; this penalty shall be remitted by the commissioner of licenses to the county general fund.

(Act 1965, No. 154, p. 218, §10.)