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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 874

(3)  All property which is used, or intended for
use, as a container for property described in paragraphs (1)
and (2);

(4)  All conveyances including aircraft, vehicles
or vessels, which are used, or intended for use, to
transport, or in any manner to facilitate the
transportation, sale, receipt, possession, or concealment
of property described in (1) or (2), except that,

(i) No conveyance used by any person as a
common carrier or vehicle for hire in the transaction of
business as a common carrier or vehicle for hire shall be
seized or forfeited under this subheading unless it appears
that the owner or other person in charge of the conveyance
was a consenting party or privy to a violation of this
subheading; and

(ii) No conveyance shall be forfeited
under the provisions of this section by reason of any act or
omission established by the owner thereof to have been
committed or omitted by any person other than such owner
while such conveyance was unlawfully in the possession of a
person other than the owner in violation of the criminal
laws of the United States, or of any state;

(5)  All books, records, and research, including
formulas, microfilm, tapes, and data which are used, or
intended for use, in violation of this subheading;

(6)  All money or currency which shall be found
in close proximity to contraband controlled dangerous
substances or controlled paraphernalia or which otherwise
has been used or intended for use in connection with the
illegal manufacture, distribution, dispensing or possession
of controlled dangerous substances or controlled
paraphernalia.

This money or currency shall be deemed to be contraband
of law and all rights, title and interest in and to the
money or currency shall immediately vest in and to Baltimore
City or the county in which it was seized, the municipal
corporation, if seized by municipal authorities, or, if it
was seized by State authorities, the State; and no such
money or currency shall be returned to any person claiming
it, or to any other person, except in the manner hereinafter
provided[.]; AND

(7)  ALL DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AS PROHIBITED BY
SECTION 287A OF THIS ARTICLE, AND CONTROLLED PARAPHERNALIA
AS PROHIBITED BY SECTION 287 OF THIS ARTICLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That nothing in
this Act shall preclude any county, municipality or
Baltimore City from adopting and enforcing legislation
relating to the sale, distribution and use of drug
paraphernalia.