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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 544
3. FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRIVING TO OR FROM SCHOOL.
(2) AN INDIVIDUAL MAY REQUEST A HEARING AS PROVIDED FOR A
SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION UNDER TITLE 16, SUBTITLE 2 OF THIS ARTICLE.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2005.
Approved May 26, 2005.
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CHAPTER 544
(Senate Bill 50)
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AN ACT concerning
Motor Vehicles - Restrictions Learners' Permits and Provisional Licenses -
Prohibition on Use of a Wireless Communication Devices Device While
Driving
FOR the purpose of requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to impose a
restriction on each learner's instructional permit and provisional driver's
license, and on certain driver's licenses, that prohibits permit holders or
licensees prohibiting the holder of a learner's instructional permit or provisional
driver's license from using ft certain interactive types of wireless communication
device devices while operating a motor vehicle that is in motion; prohibiting the
driver of a motor vehicle that is in motion from using an interactive wireless
communication device that is held by the driver while in use; providing for
certain exceptions; defining certain terms; establishing certain penalties;
prohibiting certain violations of this Act from being considered moving
violations for certain purposes; providing that certain provisions of this Act
supersede certain local laws, ordinances, or regulations; providing that certain
provisions of this Act may only be enforced by certain measures during a certain
period of time; providing for the construction of this Act; authorizing a police
officer to enforce this Act only as a secondary action when detaining a driver for
another suspected violation of law; authorizing the Motor Vehicle
Administration to suspend an individual's driver's license for a violation of this
Act for up to a certain period of time; authorizing the Administration to issue a
certain restricted license; providing for certain hearings; and generally relating
to prohibiting the use of certain interactive wireless communication devices in
motor vehicles by holders of learners' instructional permits or provisional
drivers' licenses under certain circumstances.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Transportation
Section 16-113
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Replacement Volume and 2004 Supplement)
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