WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 215

Approved May 11, 1993.

CHAPTER 215
(Senate Bill 132)

AN ACT concerning

Controlled Dangerous Substances - Fentanyl - Penalties

FOR the purpose of providing that a person who brings certain amounts of fentanyl or a
fentanyl analogue into the State is guilty of a felony and is subject to a certain
penalty; imposing certain penalties for this offense, including a mandatory minimum
term of imprisonment; imposing the same mandatory minimum term of
imprisonment on a person who brings certain amounts of certain other controlled
dangerous substances into the State; prohibiting a court from suspending any
portion of the mandatory minimum sentence; providing that a person is not eligible
for parole during the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment; and generally
relating to the transportation and possession of large quantities of certain
controlled dangerous substances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 286A

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1992 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

286A.

(a) A person who brings into this State any of the following controlled dangerous
substances which it is unlawful for that person to possess, in the amounts indicated, upon
conviction, is subject to the penalty provided in subsection (b) of this section:

(1)     100 pounds or greater of marijuana;

(2)     28 grams or greater of cocaine or any mixture containing 28 grams or
greater of cocaine;

(3)     4 grams or more of morphine or opium or any derivative, salt, isomer, or
salt of an isomer of morphine or opium;

(4)     1,000 dosage units of lysergic acid diethylamide or any mixture
containing the equivalent of 1,000 dosage units of lysergic acid diethylamide;

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