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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 184

DEFENDANT MAY BE TRIED IN THE APPROPRIATE COURT WITHIN WHOSE
JURISDICTION THE COUNTY LIES WHERE THE TRANSPORTATION WAS
offered, solicited, begun, continued or ended [in that
county or the City of Baltimore].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 185

(Senate Bill 29)

AN ACT concerning

Abandoned Vehicles

FOR the purpose of providing when the police department may
waive certain notification procedures concerning
abandoned vehicles.

BY adding to

Article — Transportation
Section 25-209(c-1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article — Transportation

25-209.

(C-1) IF THE APPLICANT SUBMITS WITH THE APPLICATION
DOCUMENTARY PROOF THAT THE NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES OF §§
25-204 AND 25-205 ALREADY HAVE BEEN COMPLIED WITH, THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT MAY ACCEPT THE DOCUMENT AS PROOF OF
COMPLIANCE AND THE DEPARTMENT IS NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE
THIS NOTIFICATION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act

shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 2, 1978.