Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    961

City (1949 Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title "Miscellaneous
Local Laws", sub-heading "Justices of the Peace and Constables",
being Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland as
amended by Chapter 296 of the Acts of 1955, be and it 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repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: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] 666 of Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of [Public General Laws of 1939] Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Crimes and Punishments", 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] 42 of Article 27 of the Annotated
Code [(1947 Supplement),] of Maryland (1956 Supplement), 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 and to hear, try and deter-
mine the cases of all persons arrested and brought before him charged
with any offenses specified in Sections 76-79, 81, and 83 to 87A, in-
clusive of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1956
Supplement); 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 Department of Maryland State Police or of the
Police Department of Baltimore City, or any fine exceeding $100 or
any term of imprisonment 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] 44 of [this]
Article 27 [(1938 Edition)] of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition) and to hear, try and determine all prosecutions or
criminal proceedings for an act done or omitted to be done in the
City of Baltimore, the doing of which act, or the omission to do which
act, is or may be punishable under any Act of Assembly of this State
or under any ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
by pecuniary fine only, not exceeding One Hundred Dollars; to hear,
try and determine the cases of all persons brought before him
charged with the violation of laws relating to hawkers and peddlers,
and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons brought before
him charged with the offense of indecent exposure; to hear, try
and determine the cases of all persons brought before him for Sunday
gaming, Sunday work, Sunday sales or Sabbath-breaking; and to
hear, try and determine the cases of all persons brought before him
charged with being a vagrant or with being an habitually disorderly
person (not insane). But it shall be the duty of the said justice
before proceeding to hear, try and determine any of the charges
aforesaid, to inform the party or parties charged therewith of his
or their respective right to a jury trial; and if a jury trial be prayed
by the party or parties charged, or if the State's Attorney for said
city shall before trial for the alleged offense pray a jury trial on the
part of the State, the justice shall forthwith commit or hold the said
party or parties to bail for trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore,

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