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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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Ch. 485
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by a certain date; providing that a law enforcement agency may not impose a
mandatory waiting period before taking a missing person report; requiring a law
enforcement agency to make every effort to inform the public and the family of a
missing person that the agency does not impose a mandatory waiting period
. before taking a certain report; requiring a law enforcement agency to accept
without delay a certain missing person report provided in person; authorizing a
law enforcement agency to accept a certain missing person report provided by
electronic means under certain circumstances; requiring a law enforcement
agency, using available funds, to publish and distribute certain information
concerning missing person investigations to the general public and the family of
a missing person; requiring all law enforcement agencies, by a certain date, to
use a uniform report form when taking a missing person report; clarifying that
the cremation of human remains is subject to certain provisions of law;
requiring the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to maintain a file of certain
DNA samples and photographs of unidentified human remains; and generally
relating to missing person reports and investigations.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 5-502
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2005 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Public Safety
Section 3-201(a), (b), and (f)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2003 Volume and 2005 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Public Safety
Section 3-207(13) and (14)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2003 Volume and 2005 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Public Safety
Section 3-207(14); and 3-601 through 3 604 3-603, inclusive, to be under the
new subtitle "Subtitle 6. Missing Persons"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2003 Volume and 2005 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
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