Ch. 3

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(1)  AN INDIVIDUAL WHO VIOLATES § 10-601(A) OF THIS
SUBTITLE WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL IS ON INACTIVE STATUS OR DISBARRED
OR WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT TO PRACTICE LAW IS SUSPENDED OR
REVOKED IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND ON CONVICTION IS SUBJECT
TO A FINE NOT EXCEEDING $1,000 OR IMPRISONMENT NOT EXCEEDING 1
YEAR OR BOTH.

(2)  A PERSON WHO VIOLATES § 10-606 OF THIS SUBTITLE
IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND ON CONVICTION IS SUBJECT TO A FINE
NOT EXCEEDING $1,000 OR IMPRISONMENT NOT EXCEEDING 1 YEAR.

(G) $5,000 AND 6 MONTHS.

A PERSON WHO VIOLATES ANY PROVISION OF § 10-602 OR § 10-603
OF THIS SUBTITLE IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND ON CONVICTION IS
SUBJECT TO A FINE NOT EXCEEDING $5,000 OR IMPRISONMENT NOT
EXCEEDING 6 MONTHS OR BOTH.

(H) $5,000 AND 5 YEARS.

A PERSON WHO WILLFULLY VIOLATES ANY PROVISION OF SUBTITLE 3,
PART I OF THIS TITLE IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND ON CONVICTION
IS SUBJECT TO A FINE NOT EXCEEDING $5,000 OR IMPRISONMENT NOT
EXCEEDING 5 YEARS OR BOTH.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived
without substantive change from former Art. 10, §
33(c), § 44(c), the second clause of the first
sentence of § 27 and, as they related to penalties, §§
12, 28, and 32(a) and the first sentence of § 11 and
the third sentence of former Art. 27, § 14 and, as it
related to penalties, the first sentence of § 13.

In subsection (b) of this section, the minimum penalty
of $25 set forth under former Art. 10, § 28 is deleted
to conform to the statement of legislative policy in
Art. 27, § 643 of the Code, which sets forth the
general rule that, notwithstanding a statutory minimum
penalty, a court may impose a lesser penalty of the
same character. The District Court has exclusive
jurisdiction over criminal offenses for which the
penalty is less than $2,500. In 1972, the power
conferred under Art. 27, § 643 was extended to the
District Court with respect to crimes that existed at
that time, including former Art. 10, § 28, which was
first enacted by Ch. 10, Acts of 1786.

Also in subsection (b) of this section, the former
authority to suspend from the practice of law certain
court and correctional employees who practiced law is
deleted as obsolete, as this grant of authority
predated the disciplinary procedures for lawyers found

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