PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 3

pistol or revolver sold or transferred including its caliber, make, model, manufacturer's
serial number, if any, and any other special or peculiar characteristics or marking by
which the said pistol or revolver may be identified.

(1) Any person who knowingly gives any false information or makes any material
misstatement in an application required by this section, or who fails to promptly forward
such application to the [Superintendent] SECRETARY of the [Maryland] State Police
or [his] THE SECRETARY'S duly authorized agent or agents, or who sells or transfers a
pistol or revolver to a person other than the one by whom application was made, or who
otherwise sells, transfers, purchases, or receives transfer of a pistol or revolver in violation
of this section, shall upon conviction thereof be subject to the penalties hereinafter
provided in § 448 of this subtitle.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Subsections (b), (c), (d)(2), (g), (h), (i)(1) and (3), (j), and (l) of this section
are amended to reflect the establishment of the Department of State Police as
a principal department of State government by Chs. 165 and 166, Acts of 1994,
to reflect the status of the head of the Department as a Secretary of a
principal department of State government, to make stylistic changes, and to
delete surplus language.

443.

(a)     No person shall engage in the business of selling pistols or revolvers unless he
lawfully possesses and conspicuously displays at his place of business, in addition to any
other license required by law, a pistol and revolver dealer's license issued by the
[Superintendent] SECRETARY of the [Maryland] State Police or [his] THE
SECRETARY'S duly authorized agent or agents. Such license shall identify the licensee
and the location of [his] THE LICENSEE'S place of business. One such license shall be
required for each place of business where pistols or revolvers are sold.

(b)     (3) The license shall not be transferable nor shall any refund or proration of
the annual fee therefor be allowed. Provided, however, that before any licensee changes
his OR HER place of business [he], THE LICENSEE shall so inform the [Superintendent]
SECRETARY of the [Maryland] State Police or [his] THE SECRETARY'S duly
authorized agent or agents and surrender his OR HER license, whereupon the
[Superintendent] SECRETARY or [his] THE SECRETARY'S duly authorized agent or
agents shall, if no cause exists for the revocation of the license, issue a new license,
without fee, covering the new place of business for the duration of the unexpired term of
the surrendered license.

(4) As part of the application for a license, the applicant shall submit to the
DEPARTMENT OF [Maryland] State Police:

(i) A complete set of the applicant's legible fingerprints taken on
standard fingerprint cards; and

(ii) Payment for the cost of the fingerprint card record checks.
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