HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                         3917

Cemetery Desecration

FOR the purpose of altering the penalties for certain crimes
relating to cemetery desecration; permitting a court to
order a judgment of restitution against a parent or parents

of juvenile offenders under certain circumstances;

permitting a court to order a child to make restitution
under certain circumstances; and altering the penalties for
desecrating a cemetery and generally relating to desecrating
a cemetery.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 267

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 3-829(h)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

267.

(A)  Any person or persons, or his, her, or their aiders or
abettors, who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or
remove WHO WILLFULLY DESTROYS, MUTILATES, DEFACES, INJURES, OR
REMOVES any tomb, monument, gravestone or other structure placed
in any cemetery, or any building, wall, fence, railing or other
work, for the use, protection or ornamentation of any public or
private cemetery in this State [or] SHALL BE IS GUILTY OF A
MISDEMEANOR AND SHALL ON CONVICTION:

(1) (I) PAY THE CEMETERY THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY
DAMAGED; OR

(II) RESTORE THE PROPERTY TAKEN TO THE CEMETERY
OR PAY THE CEMETERY THE VALUE OF THAT PROPERTY; AND

(2) BE FINED NOT MORE THAN $1,000 $2,000, OR
IMPRISONED FOR NOT MORE THAN 5 3 YEARS, OR BOTH.

(B)  ANY PERSON OR PERSONS, OR HIS, HER, OR THEIR AIDERS OR
ABETTORS WHO shall wilfully destroy, cut, break, or remove WHO