MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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FOR the purpose of making it unlawful to transfer or sell
a pistol or revolver to a person under a certain
age; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 445(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 445(b) of Article 27 - Crimes and
Punishments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

445.

(b) [It shall be unlawful for any] A dealer or
person [to] MAY NOT sell or transfer a pistol or revolver
to a person whom he knows or has reasonable cause to
believe has been convicted of a crime of violence, or of
any of the provisions of this subtitle, or is a fugitive
from justice, or is an habitual drunkard, or is addicted
to or an habitual user of narcotics, barbiturates or
amphetamines, or is of unsound mind, or to any person
visibly under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or to
any person under [eighteen] 21 years of age AS REQUIRED
BY FEDERAL LAW.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

CHAPTER 709
(House Bill 761)

AN ACT concerning

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