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bail or recognizance FOR THE SECOND SUBSEQUENT
CHARGE UNTIL THE FIRST PRIOR CHARGE HAS BEEN
FINALLY DETERMINED BY THE COURTS, AND DEFINING
A CRIME OF VIOLENCE ENUMERATING THE CERTAIN
OFFENSES TO WHICH THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 616 1 616½ be and it is hereby added to Article 27 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title
"Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Venue, Procedure and Sen-
tence," subheading "Indictments," to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 616 thereof, to read as follows:

6161. 616½.

Any person charged with and indicted by a court GRAND JURY
of this State OR CHARGED BY A CRIMINAL INFORMATION
for a felony CRIME OF VIOLENCE AN OFFENSE AS HEREIN-
AFTER ENUMERATED which was committed during the time said
person had been released on bail or his own recognizance FOR COM-
MITTING A CRIME OP VIOLENCE AN OFFENSE AS HEREIN-
AFTER ENUMERATED, shall become ineligible to give bail or be
released on recognizance on said THE SECOND ANY SUBSE-
QUENT CHARGE charge, until such time as said THE FIRST
ALL PRIOR charge has CHARGES HEREUNDER HAVE finally
been determined by the courts. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
SECTION, A CRIME OF VIOLENCE SHALL MEAN ANY OF
THOSE OFFENSES SPECIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING SEC-
TIONS OF ARTICLE 27, AS THEY MAY BE AMENDED FROM
TIME TO TIME: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT A PERSON
CHARGED WITH AND INDICTED FOR A SUBSEQUENT CRIME
AS HEREINAFTER SET FORTH, MAY REBUT HIS INELIGI-
BILITY FOR RELEASE ON BAIL OR RECOGNIZANCE BEFORE
DETERMINATION OF THE PRIOR CHARGE. IF, AFTER CON-
SIDERATION OF THE MATTERS PRESENTED IN REBUTTAL,
THE COURT HEARING THE APPLICATION FOR BAIL IS PER-
SUADED THAT THE APPLICANT WOULD NOT POSE A DAN-
GER TO ANY OTHER PERSON OR TO THE COMMUNITY,
AND WOULD APPEAR AT THE TIME SET FOR TRIAL, THE
COURT MAY ALLOW RELEASE PENDING TRIAL ON SUIT-
ABLE BAIL OR RECOGNIZANCE AND ON SUCH OTHER
CONDITIONS AS WILL REASONABLY ASSURE THAT THE
PERSON CHARGED WILL NOT FLEE. FOR THE PURPOSES
OF THIS SECTION, THE OFFENSES SHALL BE THOSE SPECI-
FIED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 27 OF
THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND (1967 REPLACE-
MENT VOLUME) AS THEY MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME
TO TIME:

(1)   SECTION 6 (RELATING TO BURNING OF PROPERTY
ETC. ;

(2)   SECTION 7 (RELATING TO BURNING OF BARN, GA-
RAGE, CHURCH, ETC.);

(3)   SECTION 10 (RELATING TO ATTEMPT TO BURN
BUILD OR PROPE