Marvin Mandel, Governor                         875

Section 4,66 (Receiving Stolen Goods)
Section 551A (Shoplifting)

(3)    Preliminary Hearings. The District Court shall also have
jurisdiction to conduct hearings in felony cases to determine if the
defendant shall be held for action of the grand jury.

(4)     Concurrent and Exclusive Jurisdiction. In any case described
in paragraphs 1 or 2 of Subsection (b) hereof in which the penalty
may be confinement of three (3) years or more or a fine of Two
Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500) or more, the District Court
and the Circuit Court, or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, if the
offense allegedly occurred in that city, shall have concurrent juris-
diction, but in all other cases the District Court shall have exclusive
original jurisdiction. If any person is charged with an offense or
offenses within the jurisdiction of the District Court, and also an
offense or offenses not within the jurisdiction of that [the] Court
arising out of the same circumstances, the person shall be originally
proceeded against in the Circuit Court in the county within which
the offense or offenses were ARE alleged to have been committed, or
in the Criminal Court of Baltimore if the offense or offenses are
alleged to have occurred within the city, and such court shall have
jurisdiction over each such offense.

(5)    Venue.

(i) Each District Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and
determine cases involving [violations] the matters described in para-
graphs 1, 2 and 3 of subsection (b) hereof committed within each
respective district provided that within each district the defendant
shall be tried within the county in which the crime or offense was
committed or in the City of Baltimore, if the offense was committed
therein, and unless the case is lawfully removed.

(ii) In every case described in paragraphs 1 and 2 of subsection
(b) hereof, the defendant shall have a right at any time prior to trial
prior to trial to demand a trial by jury if the punishment for
the particular offense with which he is charged permits imprisonment
for a period in excess of 3 months, [in which case] If a right to jury
trial exists and such a trial is demanded by the defendant the matter
shall be removed for trial to the Circuit Court in the county in which
the alleged offense occurred or to the Criminal Court of Baltimore if
the alleged offense occurred in that city [therein]. The State may
not demand a jury trial in any criminal or traffic case.

(6)    Warrants, Bond, Bail.

(i) Each EVERY District Court judge shall have the power to
issue warrants of arrest and warrants for search and seizure or for
interception of communications, when and in the manner authorized
by law,; and he shall have the power to set bond or bail or to release on
personal recognizance, bond, personal or otherwise, to commit to jail
in default of bond, to forfeit bonds upon failure of the defendant to
meet the conditions of the bond and to exercise all of the powers of
Justices of the Peace under the Constitution of 1867.

(ii) In the District Court, in all criminal or motor TRAFFIC
violations for which bond has been set, a defendant or a private
surety acting in his behalf may post the bond by executing it in the