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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 642

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

578.

(a) (1) "Off-road vehicle" means in this section,
[any] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS
SUBSECTION:

(I)   A VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 11-176 OF
THE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE; OR

(II)   ANY motorized vehicle designed for or
capable of cross—country travel on or immediately over land,
water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland or other natural terrain
and includes, but is not limited to four—wheel drive or
low—pressure—tire vehicles, motorcycles and related
two—wheel vehicles, amphibious machines, ground—effect, or
air—cushion vehicles. [The term]

(2) "OFF-ROAD VEHICLE" does not include any
boat, snowmobile, military, fire or law-enforcement vehicle,
farm—type tractors and other agricultural equipment used for
agricultural purposes or earth moving, or construction
equipment while used for those purposes, lawn mowers,
snowblowers, garden or lawn tractors or golf carts while
being used for their designed purpose.

(b) No person may operate or use an off—road vehicle
on private property, EXCEPT WHEN TRAVELING ON CLEARLY
DESIGNATED PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS, without WRITTEN permission of
the owner or tenant of the property, or to operate or use an
off—road vehicle on property owned by the State or any other
of its political subdivisions except as permitted by law.
Any person convicted of this offense is guilty of a
misdemeanor and subject to a fine of no more than $250.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 643
(House Bill 1456)
AN ACT concerning

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