HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 302

(Senate Bill 287)

AN ACT concerning

District Court - Jurisdiction

FOR the purpose of expanding the exclusive original civil
jurisdiction of the district court to include a
proceeding for adjudication of a civil penalty for
violation of any statute or any rule or regulation
certain orders, rules and regulations promulgated
pursuant to statutory authority.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 4-401(10)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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] OF ANY STATUTE OR
UNDER SECTION 15B (C-l) OF ARTICLE 41 OF THE CODE or any
rule or regulation [issued pursuant to that section]
THOSE SECTIONS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 6, 1980.

CHAPTER 303
(Senate Bill 288)