HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1879

CHAPTER 187

(Senate Bill 383)

AN ACT concerning

Protective Orders - Abuse by Household Members

FOR the purpose of clarifying that any household member named, in
an ex parte order, as an abuser may be heard on issuance of
a protective order; enabling a court to continue an ex parte
order, for a certain time, if the alleged abuser is not
served with the order and does not appear; and enabling a
court to proceed with a protective order hearing and to
grant the order whenever the court has personal jurisdiction
over the alleged abuser.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law
Section 4-506

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume)

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

Article - Family Law

4-506.

(a)  A household member [served with] NAMED AS AN ABUSER IN
a temporary ex parte order under § 4-505 of this subtitle shall
have an opportunity to be heard on the question of whether the
court should issue a protective order.

(b)  (1) The temporary ex parte order shall state the date
and time of the protective order hearing.

(2) The protective order hearing shall be held no
later than 5 days after the temporary ex parte order is served on
the household member named as an abuser in the temporary ex parte
order.

(c)  If the household member named as an abuser in the
temporary ex parte order is NOT served the temporary ex parte
order and [fails to] DOES NOT appear for the protective order
hearing, the court may continue the temporary ex parte order for
not more than 15 days.                                 

(d)  If the household member named as an abuser in the
temporary ex parte order appears for the protective order hearing
OR THE COURT OTHERWISE HAS PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THAT HOUSE
HOLD MEMBER, THE COURT: