WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor
H.B. 1245
State responsibility for maintaining a registry of returnable containers and
laundered articles; permitting the Secretary of State to set reasonable fees for
recordation of such containers and articles and copies of documents relating to such
containers and articles; repealing provisions relating to assessment, collection, and
accounting of fines and costs in certain types of criminal cases; providing for the
transfer of certain records; providing for the effect of this Act on currently
registered containers and articles; providing for the construction of this Act as it
pertains to certified copies of certain records; making stylistic changes; and
generally relating to clerks of circuit courts and the Secretary of State.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 471, 472, 473, and 474
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, and 480A
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)
BY repealing
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 481
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
471.
Any and all persons, partnerships or bodies corporate owning returnable containers,
or dealing in any commodities handled or delivered in returnable containers, which said
containers bear securely affixed or attached thereto, or impressed or imprinted thereon,
in any manner whatsoever, a name, mark or device whereby such container can be readily
identified, or any person engaged in the business of regularly supplying clean laundered
garments, towels, table or bed linens or other such articles with his or its name or other
marks or devices woven, impressed or produced thereon, and who periodically exchange
such clean articles for soiled articles, may register the same, and thereby procure all of
the benefits of such registration, guaranteed under the provisions of this subtitle, as to all
like containers, or clean laundered or soiled articles similarly marked, whether such
containers or such articles were actually in existence or not at the time of registration.
Any such owner or dealer desiring to register such returnable container, or such clean
laundered articles, shall cause to be prepared a clear statement of the character of such
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