946                              Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 616

CHAPTER 616
(Senate Bill 341)

AN ACT to implement Article IV, Section 41C of the Constitution of
Maryland, approved at the general election of November, 1960,
creating a Municipal Court of Baltimore City; to add 23 new
sections to Article 26 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Ed.), Title, "Courts", to be known as Sections 107 through
128, under a new sub-title headed "Municipal Court of Baltimore
City", relating generally to the organization and operation of said
Court, including but not limited to, the number of judges, divisions
and parts, jurisdiction, powers, sentencing, requests for jury trials,
removals, probation, warrants, show cause orders, summonses,
service, bail, contempt, judgments, rules, quarters, duties, powers,
compensation and retirement of Judges, duties, powers, bonds,
compensation, appointment, and tenure of employees, the transfer
of employees from the Traffic Court of Baltimore City, financing,
records, amount of costs, and distribution of the fines and costs
in, of, by, and to the Municipal Court of Baltimore City and creating
the Municipal Court Special Fund AND CREATING FOUR ADDI-
TIONAL ASSOCIATE JUDGESHIPS OVER THOSE CREATED
BY SAID ARTICLE IV, SECTION 41C OF THE CONSTITU-
TION;

ARTICLE 5

to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12 of Article 5
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Ed., as amended),
Title, "Appeals", sub-title "Appeals to Court of Appeals, Appeals
in Criminal Cases", providing that appeals to the Court of Appeals
of Maryland from the Criminal Court of Baltimore in the exercise
of its jurisdiction on appeal from said Municipal Court shall be
permitted only as set forth in new Section 12A of said Article and
deleting from Section 12 matters relating generally to stay of
execution of sentence and bail; to add two new sections to said
Article, and sub-title, to follow after Section 12 thereof, to be
known as Sections 12A and 12B, the former relating generally to
the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals of Maryland from the
Criminal Court of Baltimore in the exercise of its jurisdiction on
appeal from said Municipal Court and the latter relating generally
to stay of execution and bail as transferred from present Section
12 of said Article; to repeal and re-enact, with amendments the
following sections of said Article—Sections 13 and 15A of said
sub-title, adding references to new Section 12A, Section 21, sub-
title "Certiorari", adding a reference to said Municipal Court,
Sections 30, 32, 33, 36 and 40, sub-title, "Appeals to Circuit Courts
for Counties and Superior Court of Baltimore City, Appeals from
Justices of the Peace", eliminating all references to the Baltimore
City Court in connection with appeals from trial magistrates, and
Section 42 of said sub-title, eliminating the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore and the Criminal Court of Baltimore from the

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.