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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 441
(House Bill 831)

AN ACT concerning

Motor Vehicles — False Operator Identification

FOR the purpose of making it unlawful to give the name of
another person or give a false name to certain
police officers under certain circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 66 1/2 — Vehicle Laws

Section 6-112

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 6-112 of Article 66 1/2 - Vehicle
Laws, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 66 1/2 — Vehicle Laws

6-112.

(A)    Every licensee shall have his license in his
immediate possession when driving a motor vehicle upon
the highways of this State, and shall display it upon
demand by a uniformed police officer, and the licensee
shall have endorsed thereon in the proper handwriting of
the licensee the name of the licensee; and when requested
by a proper officer in the discharge of his duties under
the law the licensee shall write his name in the presence
of the officer to the end that the identity of said
licensee may be determined. No license shall be valid
unless the name of the licensee has been so endorsed.
For the purposes of this section display means the manual
surrender of the licensee's license certificate into the
hands of the demanding officer for his inspection.

(B)    IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO GIVE THE NAME
OF ANOTHER PERSON OR GIVE A FALSE OR FICTITIOUS NAME TO A
UNIFORMED POLICE OFFICER WHO IS ATTEMPTING TO DETERMINE
THE IDENTITY OF A DRIVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE.