[(b) The testimony given by a person under 21 years of age
in the prosecution of any person for unlawfully selling alcoholic
beverages to persons under 21 years of age may not be used
against the person giving the testimony in prosecuting that
person for violations of this section.]

[540..

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying. or
producing any books, papers, or other documents before any court,
or grand jury upon any investigation, proceeding or trial, for or
relating to or concerned with a violation of any section of this
subtitle or attempt to commit such violation, upon the ground or
for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or
otherwise, required of him by the State may tend to convict him
of a crime or to subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no
person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or
forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing
concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence,
documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced
shall be received against him, upon any criminal investigation,
proceeding or trial except upon a prosecution for perjury or
contempt of court based upon the giving or producing of such
testimony.]

Article 33 - Election Code

26-16.

(c) It shall be the duty of the State's Attorney of
Baltimore City and of the State's Attorney of each county of this
State to prosecute, by the regular course of criminal procedure
any person whom he may believe to be guilty of having wilfully
violated any of the provisions of this section within the city or
county for which said State's Attorney may be acting as such.
[In any criminal prosecution under this subtitle or for violation
of any of the provisions thereof, no witness, except the person
who is accused and on trial, shall be excused from answering any
question or producing any book, paper or other thing on the
ground or claim that his answer, or the thing produced or to be
produced, by him may tend to incriminate or degrade him, or
render him liable to a penalty, provided that any person
answering such a question or so producing a thing shall be exempt
from prosecution, trial and punishment for any offense of which
that person may have been guilty on a participant therein, and
about which he gives such an answer or so produces a thing,
except in a prosecution for perjury in so testifying.]

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

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WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 288

9-123.