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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 342

WHICH THE PEACE OFFICER WAS APPOINTED AND IN WHICH THE
ARREST WAS MADE.

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

Approved May 6, 1980.

CHAPTER 343

(Senate Bill 824)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes and Punishments - Chemical Mace and Tear Gas Devices

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the carrying of chemical mace
or tear gas either concealed or with the intent to
injure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 36

Annotated Code of Maryland

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

36.

(a) Every person who shall wear or carry any dirk
knife, bowie knife, switchblade knife, sandclub, metal
knuckles, razor, nunchaku, CHEMICAL MACE, OR TEAR GAS DEVICE
or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of any kind,
whatsoever (penknives without switchblade and handguns,
excepted) concealed upon or about his person, and every
person who shall wear or carry any such weapon, CHEMICAL
MACE OR TEAR GAS DEVICE openly with the intent or purpose of
injuring any person in any unlawful manner, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined not more than [one thousand ($1,000.00)] $1,000
dollars or be imprisoned in jail, or sentenced to the
Maryland Department of Correction for not more than three
years; and in case of conviction, if it shall appear from
the evidence that such weapon was carried, concealed as
aforesaid or openly, with the deliberate purpose of injuring
the person or destroying the life of another, the court