1224                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 505

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved May 2, 1969.

CHAPTER 505
(House Bill 788)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 112 of
Article 66˝ of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement
Volume), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Administration—Reg-
istration—Titling," to provide that a judge of the People's
Court in Prince George's County AND ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTIES may suspend or modify the mandatory penalty provi-
sion when a person is convicted of driving with a cancelled,
suspended, revoked license or registration card or when a license,
registration card, or other driving privilege has been refused.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 112 of Article 66˝ of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle
"Administration—Registration—Titling," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted and to read as follows:

112.

Any person, resident or nonresident, whose operator's or chauf-
feur's license, registration card, or other driving privilege has been
refused, cancelled, suspended, or revoked for any reason as provided
in this article, or as provided in the applicable law of the jurisdiction
which issued the nonresident's license, registration card or other
driving privilege, and who drives any motor vehicle upon the high-
ways of this State while such license, card or privilege is refused,
cancelled, suspended, or revoked, is guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of not less than one
hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than one thousand ($1,000.00)
dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty (30) days nor
more than six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Upon a second or subsequent conviction under the provisions of this
section, the following penalties shall be applicable, fine of not less
than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand
dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment for not more than one year,
or both, except that; imprisonment for at least 30 days shall be
mandatory, provided, however, that the mandatory provisions of this
section may be suspended or modified by the judges of the circuit
courts of the several counties and the judges of the municipal and
criminal courts of Baltimore City [and], the people's court of Prince
George's County AND ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTIES and the
magistrate's court of Baltimore County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved May 2, 1969.