WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 532

CHAPTER 532
(House Bill 139)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes - First Degree Murder - Carjacking

FOR the purpose of providing that a murder committed in the perpetration of or attempt
to perpetrate carjacking or armed carjacking is murder in the first degree; and
generally relating to first degree murder.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 410

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 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

410.

All murder which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to
perpetrate, any rape in any degree, sexual offense in the first or second degree, sodomy,
mayhem, robbery, CARJACKING OR ARMED CARJACKING, burglary, kidnapping as
defined in §§ 337 and 338 of this article, storehouse breaking as defined in §§ 32 and 33
of this article, or daytime housebreaking as defined in § 30 (b) of this article, or in the
escape or attempt to escape from the Maryland Penitentiary, the house of correction, the
Baltimore City Detention Center, or from any jail or penal institution in any of the
counties of this State, shall be murder in the first degree.

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

Approved May 26, 1994.

CHAPTER 533
(House Bill 141)

AN ACT concerning

Trading in Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects - Prohibition

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain persons from buying, selling, or transporting for
sale or profit human remains and associated funerary objects under certain
circumstances; providing certain exceptions; providing for the construction of this

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