WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 348

(g) (1) In this subsection, "drug kingpin" means a person who occupies a
position of an organizer, supervisor, financier, or manager as a coconspirator in a
conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, dispense, bring into, or transport in the State
controlled dangerous substances.

(2) A drug kingpin who conspires to manufacture, distribute, dispense,
bring into, or transport in the State controlled dangerous substances in one or more of
the amounts described under subsection (f) of this section is guilty of a felony and on
conviction is subject to:

(i) Imprisonment for not less than 20 nor more than 40 years without
the possibility of parole, and it is mandatory on the court to impose no less than 20
years' imprisonment, no part of which may be suspended; and

(ii) A fine of not more than $1,000,000.

(3) The provisions of §§ 292 and 641 of this article are not applicable to a
conviction under this subsection.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subheading, a conviction
under this subsection does not merge with the conviction for any offense which is the
object of the conspiracy.

(5) Nothing contained in this subsection prohibits the court from imposing
an enhanced penalty under § 293 of this article. This subsection may not be construed
to preclude or limit any prosecution for any other criminal offense.

(6) It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the
controlled dangerous substance was brought into or transported in this State solely for
ultimate distribution or dispensing in another jurisdiction.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1990.

Approved May 2, 1990.

CHAPTER 348
(House Bill 667)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Memorial Hospital

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of
$2,000,000 $500,000 $600,000 the proceeds to be used as a grant to The Memorial
Hospital at Easton, MD., Inc., for the purpose of the planning, design,
construction, and equipping of a regional cancer center in Easton, Maryland and
for the purpose of the planning, design, construction, reconstruction, renovation,
expansion, modernization, and equipping of the surgical facilities at Memorial

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