PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                                 Ch. 142

requiring a local law enforcement agency to send a copy of a registration statement,
within a certain period, to the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services;
requiring the Department to maintain a central registry of child sexual offenders;
requiring a local law enforcement agency to send a copy of a registration statement to
certain persons under certain circumstances; requiring a child sexual offender to provide
certain notice of a change in residence; requiring a local law enforcement agency to
provide certain notice to the Department of an offender's change in address; requiring a
child sexual offender to register annually for a certain period; requiring that a local law
enforcement agency provide certain notice and a copy of a registration statement to the
police department of a municipal corporation under certain circumstances; making the
violation of any provision of the Act a penitentiary misdemeanor; imposing certain
penalties; requiring the Department to conduct certain public education and awareness
programs; providing for the application of this Act; defining certain terms; and generally
relating to child sexual offenders.

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 692B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 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

692B.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(2) "CHILD SEXUAL OFFENDER" MEANS A PERSON WHO;

(I) HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF VIOLATING § 35A OF THIS ARTICLE
FOR AN OFFENSE INVOLVING SEXUAL ABUSE;

(II) HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF VIOLATING ANY OF THE
PROVISIONS OF §§ 462 THROUGH 464C OF THIS ARTICLE FOR AN OFFENSE INVOLVING
AN INDIVIDUAL UNDER THE ACE OF 18 YEARS; OR

(III) HAS BEEN CONVICTED IN ANOTHER STATE OF AN OFFENSE
THAT, IF COMMITTED IN THIS STATE, WOULD CONSTITUTE ONE OF THE VIOLATIONS
SET FORTH IN ITEMS (I) OR (II) OF THIS PARAGRAPH.

(IV) HAS BEEN GRANTED PROBATION BEFORE JUDGMENT AFTER
BEING CHARGED WITH VIOLATING ANY OF THE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN ITEM (I)
OR ITEM (II) OF THIS PARAGRAPH; OR

(V) HAS BEEN FOUND NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR AN
OFFENSE DESCRIBED IN ITEMS (I) THROUGH (III) OF THIS PARAGRAPH.

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