1926

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 704

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 551

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 551 of Article 27 - Crimes and
Punishments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

551.

(a) Whenever it be made to appear to any judge of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, or to any judge of
any of the circuit courts in the counties of this State,
or to any judge of the District Court, by written
application signed and sworn to by the applicant,
accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits containing
facts within the personal knowledge of the affiant or
affiants, that there is probable cause, the basis of
which shall be set forth in said affidavit or affidavits,
to believe that any misdemeanor or felony is being
committed by any individual or in any building,
apartment, premises, place or thing within the
territorial jurisdiction of such judge, or that any
property subject to seizure under the criminal laws of
the State is situated or located on the person of any
such individual or in or on any such building, apartment,
premises, place or thing, then [such] THE judge may
forthwith issue a search warrant directed to any duly
constituted policeman, or police officer authorizing him
to search such suspected individual, building, apartment,
premises, place or thing, and to seize any property found
liable to seizure under the criminal laws of this State,
provided that any such search warrant shall name or
describe, with reasonable particularity, the individual,
building, apartment, [premise] PREMISES, place or thing
to be searched, the grounds for such search and the name
of the applicant on whose written application as
aforesaid the warrant was issued, and provided further
that any search or seizure under the authority of such
search warrant, shall be made within [fifteen (15)] 15
calendar days from the date of the issuance thereof and
after the expiration of [said fifteen (15)] THE 15 day
period said warrant shall be null and void. If, at any
time, on application to a judge of the circuit court of
any county or of the Criminal Court of Baltimore or judge
of the District Court, it appears that the property taken
is not the same as that described in the warrant or that
there is no probable cause for believing the existence of
the grounds on which the warrant was issued, or that the
property was taken under a warrant issued more than
[fifteen (15)] 15 calendar days prior to the seizure,