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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 388

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 3-829

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

3-829.

(a) The court may enter a judgment of restitution
against the parent of a child, or the child in any case in
which the court finds a child has committed a delinquent act
and during the commission of that delinquent act has:

(1)   Stolen, damaged, or destroyed the property
of another;

(2)   Inflicted personal injury on another,
requiring the injured person to incur medical, dental,
hospital, or funeral expenses.

[(b) Considering the age and circumstances of a child,
the court may order the child to make restitution to the
wronged party personally.]

[(c)(B) (1) A judgment rendered under this section
may not exceed:

(i) As to property stolen or destroyed,
the lesser of the fair market value of the property or
$5,000;

(ii) As to property damaged, the lesser of
the amount of damage not to exceed the fair market value of
the property damaged or $5,000; and

(iii) As to personal injuries, inflicted,
the lesser of the reasonable medical, dental, hospital,
funeral, and burial expenses incurred by the injured person
as a result of the injury or $5,000.

(2) As an absolute limit against any one child
or his parents, a judgment rendered under this section may
not exceed $5,000 for all acts arising out of a single
incident.

[(d)] (C) A judgment of restitution against a parent
may not be entered unless the parent has been afforded a