PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 316

for the following public purposes, including any applicable architects' and engineers' fees:
as a grant to the World War II Memorial Commission for the planning and design of a
memorial to honor Marylanders who served in World War II.

(4) An annual State tax is imposed on all assessable property in the State in rate
and amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds as and when due
and until paid in full. The principal shall be discharged within 15 years after the date of
issuance of the bonds.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1995.

Approved May 9, 1995.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 316
(House Bill 1050)

Bad Checks

FOR the purpose of expanding the crime of obtaining property or services by a bad check;
establishing additional circumstances by establishing an additional circumstance
under which a person is guilty of committing the offense; allowing the State to prove
loss to a corporation from a bad check in a certain way; establishing a certain
presumption; establishing certain penalties for obtaining property or services by a
bad cheek in a certain way; altering certain penalties for obtaining property or
services by a bad check in a certain way altering certain penalties for obtaining
property or services by more than one bad check, each of which is issued for less
than a certain amount, issued to the same person within a certain time period;
allowing a court to require a defendant to pay a certain fee to certain persons upon
conviction of obtaining property or services by a bad check; establishing a method
and certain procedural requirements for proving that a defendant uttered or passed
a bad check; clarifying the applicability of certain language; granting certain powers
to certain persons appointed as special policemen; authorising a certain method of
proving dishonor of a check by a drawer, that the drawer had no account with the
drawee at the time of utterance, and insufficiency of the drawer's funds at the time
of presentation; authorizing certain commissioners to accept certain applications
requesting a statement of charges under certain circumstances and authorizing
certain commissioners to request certain additional documentation from certain
persons altering a certain definition; making stylistic changes; and generally relating
to bad checks.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 140(d), 141, 142(c), and 143
Annotated Code of Maryland

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