WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 110

Section 3-801 (a) and (g) and 3-810(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1989 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 3-801 (u), 3-810(l), (m), and (n), and 3-835(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 3-810(o) and (p) and 3-820(d)(3)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 4-4-01(11) and (12)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1989 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 4-401(13)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1989 Replacement Volume and 1993 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

[404.

{(a) It shall not be lawful for any dealer, vendor or other person or persons or body
corporate engaged in the manufacture of cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, or smokeless
tobacco, or in any occupation in which the buying or selling of said goods, wares and
merchandise shall constitute the whole or any part of his, her, its or their occupation, to
sell, barter or give any cigar or cigars, cigarette or cigarettes, smoking or chewing tobacco,
or smokeless tobacco to any individual under the age of 18 years, unless such individual is
acting solely as the agent of his employer; nor shall it be lawful for any person not a
dealer to purchase for any individual under the age of 18 years any cigar or cigars,
cigarette or cigarettes, smoking or chewing tobacco, or smokeless tobacco.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to deliver or sell to a person under the age. of 18
papers used to roll tobacco into cigarettes, commonly known as "rolling papers".]

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