HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CONTRACT, and in any case in which the parties so agree, an
appeal shall be heard on the record made in the District
Court. In every other case, including a criminal case in
which sentence has been imposed or suspended following a
plea of nolo contendere or guilty, and an appeal in a
municipal infraction case, an appeal shall be tried de novo.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
provisions of this Act apply only to any civil action filed
in the District Court or to a small claims appeal noted in
the District Court on and after July 1, 1982.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 513

(Senate Bill 328)

AN ACT concerning

Emergency Evaluations - Petitions

FOR the purpose of providing that certain petitioners for
emergency evaluations may shall present a petition to
the court; and clarifying language specifying which
petitioners shall give a petition to a peace officer.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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Section 10-622(d) and 10-623(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 200) of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1982)

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

(as enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 200) of the Acts of the

General Assembly of 1982) read(s) as follows:

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10-622.

(d)(1) Unless the peace officer is the petitioner, OR
THE PETITIONER PRESENTS THE PETITION TO THE COURT, the
petitioner under this section shall give the petition to a
peace officer.