Ch. 587 LAWS OF MARYLAND

SUBSECTION MAY BE REQUIRED TO REIMBURSE THE WICOMICO
COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR ANY EXPENSES
INCURRED BY THE DEPARTMENT IN GRANTING THE LEAVE.

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

Approved May 29, 1990.

CHAPTER 587
(House Bill 621)

AN ACT concerning

Sexual Offenses - Breaking and Entering

FOR the purpose of providing that a person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first ef
third degree if that person engages in a sexual act under certain circumstances and
in connection with the breaking and entering of a dwelling house; and generally
relating to a sexual offense committed in connection with the breaking and
entering of a dwelling house.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 464 and 464B
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1989 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

464.

(a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree if the person engages
in a sexual act:

(1) With another person by force or threat of force against the will and
without the consent of the other person, and:

(i) Employs or displays a dangerous or deadly weapon or an article
which the other person reasonably concludes is a dangerous or deadly weapon; or

(ii) Inflicts suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, or serious
physical injury upon the other person or upon anyone else in the course of committing
the offense; or

(iii) Threatens or places the victim in fear that the victim or any
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