PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 3921
1927, ch. 426, sec. 14. 1929, ch. 211.
591. All fines, penalties and forfeitures of every kind, character and
description, for any and all offenses imposed by any and all Justices of
the Peace of Prince George's County, and by this Act directed to be paid
over to the Police Justice, or imposed directly by the said Police Justice,
or any Judge of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, under
the provisions of any Public General Law or Public Local Law of this
State. Shall be paid over to the County Commissioners for the use of
Prince George's County; and the said County Commissioners are here-
by authorized, empowered and directed to levy annually and expend such
sum or sums as may be necessary for the maintenance of said Police Court,
the salary of the said Police Justice and the Clerk thereof, as well as the
salary herein provided to be paid the State's Attorney, and other expenses
provided for in this Act to be paid by said County Commissioners for the
uses and purposes as in this Act provided. Provided, however, that the
payment over of the fines, penalties or forfeitures to the County Commis-
sioners by the Police Justice and the Clerk of the Police Justice as herein
provided, shall have no reference to, nor shall it apply to the provisions
of Section 4 of Article 38, title "Fines and Forfeitures"; nor to
Section 178 of Article 56, title "Licenses," sub-title "Disposition of Fines
and Other Receipts"; nor to any other section or sections of the Motor
Vehicle Laws of the State of Maryland, wherein said fines or forfeitures
are directed to be paid elsewhere; nor to any fines, penalties or forfeitures
directed by Article 99, title "Wild Fowl—Birds and Game," where said
fines, penalties or forfeitures are directed to be paid otherwise; nor to fines,
penalties or forfeitures directed to be paid under Article 19A, title "Con-
servation of Natural Resources," nor to fines, penalties or forfeitures
under the provisions of Article 39, title "Fish and Fisheries," as con-
tained in the Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland; nor to
fines, penalties or forfeitures as contained in any ordinance of any incor-
porated town in Prince George's County.
1927, ch. 426, sec. 15.
592. The Police Justice shall prescribe rules and regulations govern-
ing the practice and procedure in his said Court, and shall prescribe the
form of writs, both civil and criminal, to be used therein. The County
Commissioners shall prepare proper return forms for the several Justices
of the Peace of said County other than the Police Justice, and to be used
by them in all cases originating before them, said forms to be in dupli-
cate, and in all cases where the alleged offense originated before any
Justice of the Peace other than the Police Justice, the said Justice of
the Peace shall transmit the papers and the recognizance and the collateral
as hereinbefore provided.
1927, ch. 426, sec. 16.
593. It is the intent and purpose of this Act that the Police Justice
herein created shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear, try and determine,
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