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

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 454

(Senate Bill 318)

AN ACT concerning

Homicide by Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated

FOR the purpose of providing that any person causing the
death of another as the result of his negligent
driving, operation or control of a motor vehicle while
intoxicated is guilty of a misdemeanor; specifying a
name for the misdemeanor; setting the penalties for the
misdemeanor; specifying that an indictment for the
crime need not contain certain information; providing a
form for the indictment; and defining intoxicated as it
relates to this crime; and removing an obsolete
reference.

BY adding to

Article 21 — Crimes and Punishments

Section 388A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 10-307 (a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

388A.

(A) IN THIS SECTION "INTOXICATED" HAS THE SAME
MEANING AS INDICATED IN AND IS SUBJECT TO THE SAME
PRESUMPTIONS AND EVIDENTIARY RULES OF § 10-307 OF THE COURTS
ARTICLE REGARDING INTOXICATION UNDER THE VEHICLE LAWS OF
THIS STATE.

(B) ANY PERSON CAUSING THE DEATH OF ANOTHER AS THE