WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 320

(B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE IV (B) OF THE COMPACT, THE
ADMINISTRATION SHALL GIVE THE SAME EFFECT TO A CONVICTION IN
ANOTHER STATE REPORTED UNDER ARTICLE III OF THE COMPACT, OTHER
THAN A CONVICTION DESCRIBED UNDER ARTICLE IV (A) OF THE COMPACT,
AS THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD FOR AN IDENTICAL OR SUBSTANTIALLY
SIMILAR CONVICTION UNDER THE MARYLAND VEHICLE LAW.

16-708.

(A)  SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS
SECTION, AN ACT OR OMISSION OF AN OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE OF THIS
STATE DONE OR OMITTED UNDER, OR IN ENFORCEMENT OF, THE PROVISIONS
OF THE COMPACT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO JUDICIAL REVIEW UNDER THE
PROVISIONS OF TITLE 10, SUBTITLE 2 (ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT)
OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE.

(B)  JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE VALIDITY OF A CONVICTION IN
ANOTHER STATE REPORTED UNDER ARTICLE III OF THE COMPACT SHALL BE
LIMITED TO ESTABLISHING THE IDENTITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS
CONVICTED IN ANOTHER STATE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act may not
take effect until a similar Act is passed by at least one other
state or United States jurisdiction that is eligible to
participate in the Driver License Compact; that all other states
and United States jurisdictions eligible to participate in the
Driver License Compact are requested to concur in this Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland by the passage of a similar Act;
that the Department of Legislative Reference shall notify the
appropriate officials of other states and United States
jurisdictions of the passage of this Act; and that upon the
concurrence in this Act by at least one other state or United
States jurisdiction that is eligible to participate in the Driver
License Compact, the Governor of the State of Maryland shall
issue a proclamation declaring this Act valid and effective.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved May 14, 1987.

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