Ch. 515

LAWS OF MARYLAND

providing that certain information is not necessary in

certain charging documents; and generally relating to

manslaughter by automobile or certain other vehicles and
homicide by motor vehicle while intoxicated.

Vehicular Homicide - Changing Documents and Penalties
- Statute of Limitations

FOR the purpose of increasing the terms of imprisonment and the
fines that may be imposed for certain vehicular homicide
crimes; increasing the period within which a prosecution for
certain vehicular homicide crimes may be instituted;
specifying the information relative to certain crimes that
must appear in a charging document; and generally relating
to the charging documents, penalties, and statute of
limitations for certain vehicular homicide offenses.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 388 and 388A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments ,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 5-106(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY adding

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 5-106(m)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1988 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

388.

Every person causing the death of another as the result of
the driving, operation or control of an automobile, motor
vehicle, motorboat, locomotive, engine, car, streetcar, train or
other vehicle in a grossly negligent manner, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor to be known as "manslaughter by automobile, motor
vehicle, motorboat, locomotive, engine, car, streetcar, train or

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