HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                           763

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

[Interfering With, Obstructing, or Falsely Represent

Being] Fire Fighters, Rescue Squad Members,

[or] AND Emergency Services Personnel

11D.

(a)   It is unlawful for any person willfully to interfere
with or obstruct a fire fighter, rescue squad member, or
emergency services personnel, while the fire fighter, rescue
squad member, or the emergency services personnel is fighting a
fire, performing emergency service, or proceeding to a fire or
other emergency.

(b)   It is unlawful for any person to:

(1)  Falsely represent himself as being a member of
any paid or volunteer fire department, rescue squad, or emergency
service unit of the State, Baltimore City, or any county or
municipal corporation of the State, with fraudulent design on a
person or property; or

(2)  Have, use, wear, or display without proper
authority, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DECEPTION, any uniform, shield,
button, ornament, identification, or shoulder patch, or any
simulation or imitation of these articles, adopted by any paid or
volunteer fire department, rescue squad, or emergency service
unit [for the purpose of deception].

(c)  Violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable
by imprisonment for not more than three (3) years.

36B.

(b) Any person who shall wear, carry, or transport any
handgun, whether concealed or open, upon or about his person, and
any person who shall wear, carry or knowingly transport any
handgun, whether concealed or open, in any vehicle traveling upon
the public roads, highways, waterways, or airways or upon roads
or parking lots generally used by the public in this State shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor; and it shall be a rebuttable
presumption that the person is knowingly transporting the
handgun; and on conviction of the misdemeanor shall be fined or
imprisoned as follows:

(ii) If the person has previously been once convicted
of unlawfully wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in
violation of [§ 36B] THIS SECTION, or of unlawfully using a
handgun in the commission of a crime in violation of subsection
(d) of this section, or of unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon
in violation of § 36 of this article, or of unlawfully carrying a
deadly weapon on public school property in violation of § 36A of
this article, he shall be sentenced to the Maryland Division of
Correction for a term of not less than 1 year nor more than 10