PARRIS N. GLENDEN1NG, Governor                               Ch. 92

Preamble

WHEREAS, There are currently many anachronistic provisions of the criminal law
concerning protections of railroads and property related to public transportation; and

WHEREAS, These provisions of law are currently "covered by more general
prohibitions against certain behavior, including malicious destruction of property,
burglary, robbery, assault, reckless endangerment, and theft; and

WHEREAS, It appears that these provisions of law have fallen into disuse; and

WHEREAS, It will aid the clarity of the law to repeal those obsolete provisions;
now, therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

[111B.

Any person who wilfully throws, shoots or propels a rock, stone, brick, or a piece of
iron, steel or other like metal, or any deadly or dangerous missile, or fire bomb; into a
vehicle or instrumentality of public transportation that is occupied by one or more
persons is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00), or to undergo imprisonment not exceeding
one (l) year or both, at the discretion of the court.]

[112.

Any person, his aiders, abettors, and counsellors, who shall break open or enter into
any railroad car, then being upon the track of any railroad company in this State, with
intent maliciously to injure or destroy such car, or any kind of goods and chattels therein
being, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
one year nor more than five years.]

[113.

Any person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall maliciously injure or
destroy any railroad locomotive, tender, car or carriage belonging to or in the use of any
railroad company in this State, or being upon the track of any railroad company in this
State, or who shall maliciously injure or destroy any kind of goods or chattels deposited or
contained in such railroad car or carriage shall upon conviction thereof be confined in the
penitentiary for not less than one or more than ten years.]

[114.

(a)     In this section the word "freight" means chattels, goods, or containers.

(b)     Any person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall be convicted of the
crime of breaking into or entering by force or otherwise any railroad car, or freight
secured or attached to any railroad car then being in the possession or use of any railroad

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