BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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ages of the victim and the person engaging in the act;
and redefining the crimes of second and fourth degree
sexual offenses by changing the age conditions

applicable to the victims ;giving this Act a

prospective effect and providing for the prosecution of

persons committing certain crimes repealed by this Act

when those crimes, have been committed prior to their
repeal; and generally relating to sexual offenses.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 464, 464A, and 464C

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 27 — Crimes and Punishments

464.

(a)    A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the
first degree if the person engages in a sexual act:

(1)    With another person by force or threat of
force against the will and without the consent of the other
person, and:

(i) Employs or displays a dangerous or
deadly weapon or an article which the other person
reasonably concludes is a dangerous or deadly weapon; or

(ii) Inflicts suffocation, strangulation,
disfigurement, or serious physical injury upon the other
person or upon anyone else in the course of committing the
offense; or

(iii) Threatens or places the victim in
fear that the victim or any person known to the victim will
be imminently subjected to death, suffocation,
strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or
kidnapping; or

(iv) The person commits the offense aided
and abetted by one or more other persons[; or

(2)    With another person who is under 14 years
of age and the person performing the act is at. least four or
more years older than the victim].

(b)    Any person violating the provisions of this
section is guilty of a felony and upon conviction is subject
to imprisonment for no more than the period of his natural
life.