Ch. 159 LAWS OF MARYLAND

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

Approved April 24, 1990.

CHAPTER 159
(House Bill 38J)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Justice Information System - Adoption of Rules

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services to develop certain rules to govern accessing criminal history records for
other than criminal justice purposes; and generally relating to criminal justice
information system procedures.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 746(b)
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

746.

(b) Subject to the provisions of Title 3, Subtitle 4 of the State Finance and
Procurement Article, the rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary, the Court, and
the Chief Judge shall include those:

(1) Governing the collection, reporting, and dissemination of criminal
history record information by the courts and all other criminal justice agencies;

(2) Necessary to insure the security of the criminal justice information
system and all criminal history record information reported and collected from it;

(3) Governing the dissemination of criminal history record information in
accordance with the provisions of this subtitle and the provisions of §§ 735 to 741;

(4) Governing the procedures for inspection and challenging of criminal
history record information;

(5) Governing the auditing of criminal justice agencies to insure that
criminal history record information is accurate and complete and that it is collected,

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