PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 498

CHAPTER 498
(Senate Bill 256)

AN ACT concerning

Drunk Driving - Intoxication Per Se - Penalties

FOR the purpose of making it a misdemeanor for a person to drive or attempt to drive
any vehicle while the person has a certain alcohol concentration in the person's
body as determined at the time of testing; repealing a provision that establishes that
a certain alcohol concentration is prima facie evidence that a person was driving
while intoxicated; making certain conforming changes to provisions of law relating
to homicide by motor vehicle or vessel while intoxicated; making certain clarifying
changes; defining certain terms; and generally relating to penalties for drunk driving
and intoxication per se.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 21-902
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Transportation

Section 27-101(a), (c)(22), (23), and (24), (f), (j), and (k)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 10-307
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 388A

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

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