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hereby repealed, and that said subheading "Payment of Counsel Fees," be and it is
hereby repealed, and all to read as follows:

[PAYMENT OF COUNSEL FEES

139-1/2.

Counsel fees due to an attorney who shall be appointed to defend an indigent
person charged with any crime committed while incarcerated in a penal or
correctional institution under the supervision and control of the Department of
Correction shall be a responsibility of the State of Maryland. Funds for such
payments shall be included in the annual budget of the Department of Correction.
After receipt of a list of such payments from the county or Baltimore City in
which the crime occurred, the Department shall reimburse the county or city.l

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 513
(House Bill 159)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 40 of Article 83 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Supplement), title "Sales and Notices,"
subtitle "Antitrust," to amend the criminal penalties for antitrust violations by
providing that those penalties apply only to certain business transactions.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 40 of Article 83 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Supplement), title "Sales and Notices," subtitle "Antitrust," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

40.

Every person who shall willfully do any act of the acts prohibited by Section 38
(A)(1) OR (A)(2) of this subtitle shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
punished by a fine of up to $500,000, or by imprisonment not to exceed six
months, or both.

(1)  The Attorney General with such assistance as he may from time to time
require of the State's attorneys in the several counties and Baltimore City shall
investigate suspected criminal violations of this subtitle and shall, with the State's
attorney for the county or Baltimore City where the prosecution is brought,
commence and try all prosecutions under this subtitle. Prosecutions under this
subtitle may be commenced by complaint, information, or indictment. With respect
to the commencement and trial of such prosecution, the Attorney General shall
have all of the powers and duties vested by law in State's attorneys with respect to
criminal prosecutions generally.

(2)   A prosecution for any offense in violation of this subtitle must be
commenced within four years after the commission thereof.