Ch. 734                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 734

(House Bill 1330)

AN ACT concerning

Chemical Test Results - Presumptions

FOR the purpose of altering the percentage of alcohol by weight
in a person's blood, as determined by a certain analysis of
the person's blood or breath, that may not give rise to
certain presumptions; altering the percentage of alcohol by
weight in a person's blood, as determined by a certain
analysis of the person's blood or breath, that shall give
rise to a presumption that the person was not intoxicated
and that the person was not driving while under the
influence of alcohol; altering the percentage of alcohol by
weight in a person's blood, as determined by a certain
analysis of the person's blood or breath, that shall be
prima facie evidence that a person was driving while under
the influence of alcohol; altering the percentage of alcohol
by weight in a person's blood, as determined by a certain
analysis of a person's blood or breath, that shall be prima
facie evidence that a person was driving while intoxicated;
altering the percentage of alcohol by weight in a person's
blood, as determined by a certain analysis of the person's
blood or breath, that shall be prima facie evidence that the
defendant was driving with alcohol in the defendant's blood;
and generally relating to altering the evidentiary effect of
certain percentages of alcohol by weight in a person's
blood, as determined by a certain analysis.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 10-307

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 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 - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

10-307.

(a) In a proceeding in which a person is charged with a
violation of § 388A of Article 27 or with driving or attempting
to drive a vehicle in violation of § 21-902 of the Transportation
Article, the amount of alcohol in the person's breath or blood
shown in chemical analysis as provided in this subtitle is

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