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during such two year period the plaintiff may secure from such
Justice of the Peace or Trial Magistrate an extension of said two
year period for good cause shown.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 11, 1955.

CHAPTER 296
(Senate Bill 395)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 410
of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949
Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title "Miscellaneous Local
Laws", sub-heading "Justices of the Peace and Constables",
providing that justices of the peace may impose fines not ex-
ceeding $ 1,000, or terms of imprisonment not exceeding three
years, in case of assault or assault and battery committed upon
any officer of the Department of Maryland State Police or of the
Police Department of Baltimore City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 410 of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Balti-
more City (1949 Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title "Miscel-
laneous Local Laws", sub-heading "Justices of the Peace and Con-
stables", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

410. Each of the said justice of the peace shall have power to
hear, try and determine the case of every person who may be
arrested and brought before him in the said City of Baltimore*
charged with the violation of Section 617 of Article 27 of the Anno-
tated Code of Public General Laws of 1939, title "Crimes and Pun-
ishments", and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons
arrested and brought before him charged with any offense specified
in Sections 749 to 752, inclusive, of this Article, or in Sections 765
to 768, inclusive, of this Article; and to hear, try and determine the
cases of all persons brought before him charged with the violation
of Section 128 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code (1947 Supple-
ment), or charged with any disturbance of the public peace; and
to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons brought before
him charged with assault or with assault and battery; provided that
no justice of the peace shall impose any fine exceeding $1,000 or any
term of imprisonment exceeding three years, in any case of assault,
or assault and battery committed upon any officer of the Depart-
ment of Maryland State Police or of the Police Department of
Baltimore City, or any fine exceeding $100 or any term of imprison-
ment exceeding one year, in any case of assault, or assault and
battery committed upon any person other than such police officer,
and to hear, try and determine all charges of carrying concealed
weapons and all violations of Section 917 of this Article (1938

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.