HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
139A.

(a)  It is unlawful for any person to manufacture,
assemble, use or possess in this State, any device commonly
known as a firebomb or a Molotov cocktail. Such a device is
defined as any container which is filled with an incendiary
mixture or flammable material or liquid, and is designed and
intended to be used as a destructive device and whose
ignition is caused by flame, friction, concussion,
detonation or other method which will produce destructive
effects primarily through combustion rather than explosion.
This provision [shall] DOES not extend to those containers
that contain and that are primarily designed and approved
for the transportation or storage of a particular mixture,
material or liquid.

(b)  Violation of this section is a [misdemeanor]
FELONY misdemeanor and is punishable upon conviction by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not to exceed [three]
10 5 years, or by fine not to exceed [one thousand dollars
($1,000.)] $5,000 $2,500 or both.

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

Approved May 6, 1980.

CHAPTER 371

(House Bill 165)

AN ACT concerning

Consumer Protection - Work-at-Home Solicitations

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain practices and
requiring the payment of compensation by certain
persons who place certain advertisements or
solicitations for certain work-at-home employment or
services under certain circumstances.

BY adding to

Article - Commercial Law

Section 13-314

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Volume and 1979 Supplement)