Ch. 628

LAWS OF MARYLAND

record of the Administration to be kept on microfilm or in other
microform, and the original destroyed.

(d) Except for records required by law to be kept longer,

the Administrator may destroy any record of the Administration

that it has kept for 3 years or more and that the Administrator

considers obsolete and unnecessary to the work of the
Administration.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved May 27, 1988.

CHAPTER 6 28

(House Bill 38)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Law - Expungement of Records

FOR the purpose of specifying the period of time that must elapse
prior to the filing of a petition requesting expungement of
certain police and court records records, court records, and
other records in a case in which a judgment of probation
without finding a verdict, or probation on stay of entry of
judgment, is entered; and making stylistic changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 737

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

737.

(a) [If a] A person [is] charged with the commission of a
crime [and] MAY FILE A PETITION SETTING FORTH THE RELEVANT FACTS
AND REQUESTING EXPUNGEMENT OF THE POLICE RECORDS, COURT RECORDS,
AND OTHER RECORDS MAINTAINED BY THE STATE OF MARYLAND AND ITS
SUBDIVISIONS, PERTAINING TO THE CHARGE IF:

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