MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

415

(House Bill 940)

AN ACT concerning

Corrective Bill — Criminal Law

FOR the purpose of correcting technical errors in the
laws relating to crimes and punishments.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 36(c), 182, 256(g), 551(a), 639A(a)(5) and

706(e)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 36(c), 182, 256(g), 551(a),
639A(a)(5) and 706(e) of Article 27 - Crimes and
Punishments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

36.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prevent the carrying of any of the weapons mentioned in
[the preceding paragraph] SUBSECTION (A) of this section
by an officer of this State, or of any county or city
therein, who is entitled or required to carry such weapon
as part of his official equipment, or by any conservator
of the peace, who is entitled or required to carry such
weapon as part of his official equipment, or by any
officer or conservator of the peace of some other state
temporarily sojourning in this State, or by any special
agent of a railway or by any person to whom a permit to
carry a concealed weapon has been issued under § 36E of
this article, or by any person who shall carry such
weapon as a reasonable precaution against apprehended
danger, but the tribunal before which any case arising
under the provisions of this section may be tried, shall
have the right to judge of the reasonableness of the
carrying of any such weapon, and the proper occasion
therefor, under the evidence in the case.

182.

It is unlawful for any person to wear the insignia,
badge, distinctive ribbons or membership rosette or
button of a military or patriotic organization or of any
lodge or fraternal society chartered or having grand or