238                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 31

CHAPTER 31

(Senate Bill 209)

AN ACT concerning

District Court - Original Jurisdiction

FOR the purpose of expanding the exclusive original
jurisdiction of the District Court to include certain
violations relating to the Maryland Used Oil Recycling
Act; and making this Act an emergency measure.

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 4-401(10)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1978 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

4-401.

Except as provided in § 4-402, and subject to the venue
provisions of Title 6, the District Court has exclusive
original civil jurisdiction in:

(10) A PROCEEDING FOR ADJUDICATION OF A CIVIL
PENALTY FOR ANY VIOLATION UNDER SECTION 8-1411.1 OF THE
NATURAL RESOURCES ARTICLE OF THE CODE OR ANY RULE OR
REGULATION ISSUED PURSUANT TO THAT SECTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1979.

CHAPTER 32
(Senate Bill 227)