WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

H.B. 415

Carjacking

FOR the purpose of making carjacking and armed carjacking specific crimes; providing
certain penalties for the commission of a carjacking; defining carjacking and certain
other terms; making carjacking an aggravating circumstance for the purpose of the
death penalty sentencing procedure; providing that carjacking and armed carjacking
are crimes of violence for certain purposes; making this Act an emergency measure;
and generally relating to carjacking and the theft of a motor vehicle.

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 348A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY' repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 413(a), (c), and (f)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 413(d) and (g)(1), 441(e), and 643B(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments-
Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments
Section 4-501(12)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 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

348A.

(A)     IN THIS SECTION, "MOTOR VEHICLE" HAS THE MEANING STATED IN §
11-135 OF THE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE.

(B)     (1) AN INDIVIDUAL COMMITS THE OFFENSE OF CARJACKING WHEN THE
INDIVIDUAL OBTAINS UNAUTHORIZED POSSESSION OR CONTROL OF A MOTOR
VEHICLE FROM ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL IN ACTUAL POSSESSION BY FORCE OR
VIOLENCE, OR BY PUTTING THAT INDIVIDUAL IN FEAR THROUGH INTIMIDATION
OR THREAT OF FORCE OR VIOLENCE.

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