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or in barns, outhouses, barracks, or in the open air, without having
any lawful occupation in the city, town or county in which he may so
wander, and without having any visible means of support, shall be
deemed to be a tramp, and to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
subject to imprisonment, at the discretion of the court [or justice of
the peace] hearing the charge, for a period of not less than thirty
days, nor more than one year. This section does not [to] apply to
Allegany County.

§ 589. Offenses committed on steamboats, trains, buses, airplanes,
etc.

Any person who may commit any indictable offense on a steamboat,
railroad train, motor bus, airplane or other means of intercity or inter-
state public transportation within the State of Maryland may be pre-
sented, indicted, tried and convicted in any county or city from, to or
through which the said boat, train, motor bus, airplane or other means
of intercity or interstate public transportation may run, and on arrest
be taken before, and in case of bailable offenses, be held, to bail by
any [justice of the peace] commissioner of the District Court in any
such county or [by the Municipal Court of] in Baltimore City; but
such presentment, indictment and trial shall be in the same county
or city in which such [justice of the peace or court] commissioner
shall be.

§ 594B. Arrest without warrant—Police officers.

(h) Nothing in this section shall deprive a person of the right to
receive a summons for traffic violation as provided in Article 66˝ of
this Code as amended from time to time or for a criminal violation,
as provided by law or rule of court.

§ 616K. Meaning of "appropriate court" and "correctional insti-
tution."

(a) The phrase "appropriate court" as used in the Interstate
Agreement on Detainers, with reference to the courts of this State,
means any court in this State having criminal jurisdiction which is
part of the circuit court of a county, the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City, the District Court or any other court [, including trial magis-
trates, of lesser criminal jurisdiction] than these specified courts.

§ 638A. Release of person on own recognizance.

(c) Application of section.—The provisions of this section shall be
applicable to any criminal case or offense except a case where death or
life imprisonment without parole is a possible punishment before any
judge of any circuit court in the counties or any judge of the [c]Crim-
inal [c]Court[s] of Baltimore [City, any people's court judge with
criminal jurisdiction, any of the judges of the Municipal Court of
Baltimore City], or any [trial magistrate] judge or commissioner of
the District Court of Maryland. The provisions of this section shall
apply to all persons regardless of age.

§ 639. Suspension of sentence generally; orders and terms; minors;
week-end confinement in Prince George's County.

The courts may suspend sentence generally or for a definite time,
and may make such orders and impose such terms as to costs, recog-