WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 161

CHAPTER 161

(Senate Bill 305)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Conspiracies - Statute of Limitations

FOR the purpose of making the statute of limitations for the
crime of conspiracy the same as the statute of limitations
for the underlying offense.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 5-106(e) and (f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 5-106(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1986 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

5-106.

(e)  A prosecution for the commission of or the attempt to
commit a misdemeanor constituting: (1) a criminal offense under
the State election laws; or (2) a criminal offense under the
State conflict of interest laws; or (3) criminal malfeasance,
misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office committed by an officer of
the State, or of an agency of the State, or of a political
subdivision of the State, or of a bicounty or multicounty agency
in the State shall be instituted within two years after the
offense was committed.

(f)  A prosecution for conspiracy to commit any of the
offenses enumerated in subsection (e) shall be instituted within
two years after the offense was committed.

(L) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (F) OF THIS SECTION,
THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF THE CRIME OF
CONSPIRACY IS THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF
THE SUBSTANTIVE CRIME THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THE CONSPIRACY.

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