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the Fisheries Research and Development Fund. All other fines shall be paid in
accordance with Article 26, § 155. The Fisheries Research and Development Fund
shall be administered by the Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs and used for
repletion of fisheries resources and related research. The Fisheries Research and
Development Fund may be used to match federal funds that may be or become
available for research and development of fisheries resources.

756.

(b) To review petitions for formation of shore erosion control [district]
DISTRICTS presented to any of the counties or Baltimore City and to report to
the counties or Baltimore City as provided by § 167B of Article 25 of this Code.

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

Approved May 7, 1973.

CHAPTER 332
(House Bill 994)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 36B(c)(l), 36C(a),
122, 124, 254(d), 286(b), 297(c), 297(f)(2)(iii), 297(p) and 645K of Article 27 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1972
Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitles, respectively, "Crimes
and Punishments" and "Venue, Procedure and Sentence"; subheadings,
respectively, "Handguns," "Disturbance of the Public Peace," "Drunkenness
and Disorderly Conduct," "Gaming," "Health-Controlled Dangerous
Substances," and "Employment of Prisoners"; correcting errors in the laws
relating generally to crimes and punishments and employment of prisoners.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 36B(c)(l), 36C(a), 122, 124, 254(d), 286(b), 297(c),
297(f)(2)(iii), 297(p) and 645K of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Crimes and
Punishments," subtitles, respectively, "Crimes and Punishments," and "Venue,
Procedure and Sentence"; subheadings, respectively, "Handguns," "Disturbance of
the Public Peace," "Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct," "Gaming,"
"Health-Controlled Dangerous Substances," and "Employment of Prisoners"; be
and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

36B(c).

(1) Nothing in this section shall prevent the wearing, carrying, or transporting
of a handgun by (i) law-enforcement personnel of the United States, or of this
State, or of any county or city of this State, (ii) members of the armed forces of
the United States or of the National Guard while on duty or traveling to or from
duty; or (iii) law-enforcement personnel of some other state or subdivision thereof
temporarily in this State on official business; (iv) any jailer, prison guard, warden,
or guard or keeper at any penal, correctional or detention institution in this State;
or (v) sheriffs and temporary or full-time sheriffs' deputies, as to all of whom this
exception shall apply only when they are on active assignment engaged in law
enforcement; provided, that any such person mentioned in this paragraph is duly
authorized at the time and under the circumstances he is wearing, carrying, or