VETOES

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 583 to be under the new subheading "Videotape

Distributors"
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

VIDEOTAPE DISTRIBUTORS

583.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS OR TERMS HAVE
THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2) "PROTECTED INDIVIDUAL" MEANS:

(I) THE INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBED BY ANY INFORMATION
THE WRONGFUL DISCLOSURE OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNDER THIS

SECTION; OR

(II) AN AGENT OF THAT INDIVIDUAL.

(3) "PUBLICATION" MEANS DISTRIBUTION TO A PERSON
OTHER THAN THE PROTECTED INDIVIDUAL.

(4) "VIDEOTAPE DISTRIBUTOR" MEANS A PERSON WHO SELLS
OR RENTS VIDEOTAPES.

(5)(I) "WRONGFUL DISCLOSURE" MEANS ANY PUBLICATION
THAT OCCURS IN CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH A PROTECTED INDIVIDUAL WHO
RENTS OR PURCHASES A VIDEOTAPE HAS A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF
PRIVACY.

(II) "WRONGFUL DISCLOSURE" DOES NOT INCLUDE:
1. ANY DISCLOSURE MADE INCIDENT TO THE
NORMAL COURSE OF THE BUSINESS OF RENTING OR SELLING VIDEOTAPES TO
A PERSON WHOM THE PROTECTED INDIVIDUAL AUTHORIZES, PRIOR TO
DISTRIBUTION, TO RECEIVE THE INFORMATION; OR

2. ANY DISCLOSURE MADE UNDER SUMMONS OR
SUBPOENA TO APPROPRIATELY AUTHORIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL;
OR

3. ANY DISCLOSURE MADE TO A COLLECTION
AGENCY OR PERSON DESIGNATED BY THE VIDEOTAPE DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE
PURPOSE OF COLLECTING AN UNRETURNED VIDEOTAPE OR AN AMOUNT EQUAL
TO THE VALUE OF THE UNRETURNED VIDEOTAPE.

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