WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 453

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 25B - Home Rule for Code Counties
Section 13C(o)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 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 25B - Home Rule for Code Counties

13C.

(o) (1) In a proceeding for a civil infraction:

(1) The (I) SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS
SUBSECTION, THE State's Attorney, COUNTY ATTORNEY, OR ASSISTANT COUNTY
ATTORNEY for a county shall prosecute the civil infraction in the same manner as a
violation of the criminal laws of this State; and

(2) (II) The State's Attorney may enter a nolle prosequi or place the case
on the stet docket in the same manner as is now prescribed by law or rule for violation of
the criminal laws of this State.

(2) (I) SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
THE STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR A COUNTY MAY DESIGNATE IN WRITING THE COUNTY
ATTORNEY OR ANY ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY IN A COUNTY TO EXERCISE THE
POWER TO PROSECUTE CIVIL INFRACTIONS.

(II) UPON A DESIGNATION DESCRIBED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH
OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY OR ANY ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY, THE
DESIGNATED COUNTY ATTORNEY OR ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY SHALL HAVE,
AND BE AUTHORIZED TO EXERCISE, THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF THE STATE'S
ATTORNEY WITH RESPECT TO THE PROSECUTION OF A CIVIL INFRACTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1994.

Approved May 2, 1994.

CHAPTER 453
(House Bill 1665)

AN ACT concerning

Deep Creek Lake - User Fees

FOR the purpose of altering the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to
charge certain fees concerning Deep Creek Lake; requiring that fees collected for

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