Ch. 433                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 433

(House Bill 574)

AN ACT concerning

First Degree Rape - Breaking and Entering

FOR the purpose of making a rape committed in connection with the
breaking and entering of a dwelling house rape in the first
degree; and providing for a penalty.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 462

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

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

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

462.

(a) A person is guilty of rape in the first degree if the
person engages in vaginal intercourse with another person by
force or threat of force against the will and without the consent
of the other person and:

(1)  Employs or displays a dangerous or deadly weapon or an
article which the other person reasonably concludes is a
dangerous or deadly weapon; or

(2)  Inflicts suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, or
serious physical injury upon the other person or upon anyone else
in the course of committing the offense; or

(3)  Threatens or places the victim in fear that the victim
or any person known to the victim will be imminently subjected to
death, suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, serious
physical injury, or kidnapping; or

(4)  The person commits the offense aided and abetted by one
or more other persons; OR

(5)  THE PERSON COMMITS THE OFFENSE IN CONNECTION WITH THE
BREAKING AND ENTERING OF A DWELLING HOUSE.

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