HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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investigation or any other person acting at the prior direction
and under the supervision of an investigative or law enforcement
officer to intercept a wire or oral communication in order to
provide evidence of the commission of the offenses of murder,
kidnapping, gambling, robbery, any felony punishable under the
"Arson and Burning" subheading of Article 27, bribery, extortion,
or dealing in controlled dangerous substances, INCLUDING
VIOLATIONS OF ARTICLE 27, § 286B OR § 287A, or any conspiracy to
commit any of these offenses, where the person is a party to the
communication or one of the parties to the communication has
given prior consent to the interception.

(3)  It is lawful under this subtitle for a person to
intercept a wire or oral communication where the person is a
party to the communication and where all of the parties to the
communication have given prior consent to the interception unless
the communication is intercepted for the purpose of committing
any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or
laws of the United States or of this State or for the purpose of
committing any other injurious act.

(4)  It is lawful under this subtitle for an officer,
employee, or agent of a governmental emergency communications
center to intercept a wire or oral communication where the
officer, agent or employee is a party to a conversation
concerning an emergency.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 443

(House Bill 779)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes and Punishments - Computer Access to Public Records

FOR the purpose of making it unlawful for a person to access
public records except in certain circumstances; defining a
term; increasing the amount of a fine that may be assessed
for violation of Article 27 § 45A of the Code; and providing
for construction of the Act with other provisions of law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 45A

Annotated Code of Maryland