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title "Licenses," subtitle "Private Detectives;" to exclude hand-
guns from the provisions of Section 36 of Article 27; to amend
the penalties for carrying a handgun on public school property;
to make unlawful, generally regulate, and provide penalties for
the wearing, carrying, or transporting of handguns; TO MAKE
UNLAWFUL THE WEARING, CARRYING, OR TRANSPORT-
ING OF HANDGUNS BY A PERSON WITH A PERMIT
WHILE HE IS IN AN INTOXICATED CONDITION UNDER
THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL OR DRUGS AND TO PRO-
VIDE PENALTIES THEREFOR; to make the use of a
handgun in the commission of a felony or crime of violence a
misdemeanor and to provide penalties therefor; to allow law en-
forcement officers to conduct searches for handguns under certain
circumstances; to allow law enforcement officers to arrest persons
for violating Section 36B of said article pursuant to the provisions
of Section 594B(e) of Article 27; to repeal provisions for the
issuance of permits to private detectives to carry concealed
weapons; TO CORRECT CERTAIN OBSOLETE LANGUAGE
AND REFERENCES; TO PROVIDE FOR SEIZURES, FOR-
FEITURES AND PROCEDURES RELATING THERETO; and
relating generally to the regulation of handguns.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 36 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume), title "Crimes and Punishments,"
subtitle "I. Crimes and Punishments," subheading "Concealed Weap-
ons," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

36.

(a) Every person who shall wear or carry any [pistol,] dirk knife,
bowie knife, switchblade knife, sandclub, metal knuckles, razor, or
any other dangerous or deadly weapon of any kind, whatsoever (pen-
knives without switchblade and handguns, excepted) concealed upon
or about his person, and every person who shall wear or carry any
such weapon openly with the intent or purpose of injuring any person
in any unlawful manner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one thousand
($1,000.00) dollars or be imprisoned in jail, or sentenced to the Mary-
land Department of Correction for not more than three years; and in
case of conviction, if it shall appear from the evidence that such
weapon was carried, concealed as aforesaid or openly, with the de-
liberate purpose of injuring the person or destroying the life of an-
other, the court [, or justice of the peace, presiding in the case,] shall
impose the highest sentence of imprisonment hereinbefore prescribed.
In Cecil, Anne Arundel, Talbot, Harford, Caroline, Prince George's,
Montgomery, Washington, Worcester and Kent counties it shall also
be unlawful and a misdemeanor, punishable as above set forth, for
any minor to carry any dangerous or deadly weapon, other than a
handgun, between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise,
whether concealed or not, except while on a bona fide hunting trip,
or except while engaged in or on the way to or returning from a bona
fide trap shoot, sport shooting event, or any organized civic or mili-
tary activity.