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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 663

CHAPTER 663

(House Bill 885)

AN ACT concerning

Code Home Rule Counties - Powers - Civil Infractions

FOR the purpose of authorizing Code Home Rule Counties to provide
that a violation of a county ordinance, resolution, or
public local law shall be a civil infraction unless the
violation is declared to be a felony or a misdemeanor by
law, resolution, or ordinance; providing for certain methods
by which a Code Home Rule County may enforce a civil
infraction; providing for certain penalties that may be
imposed by a Code Home Rule County for a civil infraction;
providing for certain rights that a Code Home Rule County
must give to a defendant who receives a citation for a civil
infraction; providing that adjudication of a civil
infraction is not a criminal conviction and does not impose
any of the civil disabilities imposed by a criminal
conviction; defining certain terms; and generally relating
to the power of a Code Home Rule County to provide for a
civil infraction and enforce a civil infraction.

BY adding to

Article 25B - Home Rule for Code Counties

Section 13C

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

Article 25B - Home Rule for Code Counties

13C.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORD'S HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2)  (I) "CIVIL INFRACTION" MEANS A VIOLATION OF A
COUNTY ORDINANCE, RESOLUTION, OR PUBLIC LOCAL LAW WHICH HAS BEEN
DESIGNATED A CIVIL INFRACTION BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF A CODE
HOME RULE COUNTY.

(II) A CIVIL INFRACTION IS A CIVIL OFFENSE.

(3)  "DEFENDANT" MEANS A PERSON RECEIVING A CITATION
FOR A CIVIL INFRACTION.