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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 743

CHAPTER 743

(House Bill 758)
AN ACT concerning

Interception of Oral and Wire Communications

FOR the purpose of adding the crimes of attempt and crime of
solicitation to commit any of the offenses listed in this
Act that permit the use of electronic interception of wire
or oral communications in criminal investigations.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 10-402(c)(2) and 10-406

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

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

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

10-402.

(c) (2) It is lawful under this subtitle for an
investigative or law enforcement officer acting in a criminal
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,
ATTEMPT, OR SOLICITATION to commit any of these offenses, or
where any person has created a barricade situation and probable
cause exists for the investigative or law enforcement officer to
believe a hostage or hostages may be involved, where the person
is a party to the communication or one of the parties to the
communication has given prior consent to the interception.

10-406.