PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 470

CHAPTER 470
(House Bill 1152)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County - Fines and Forfeitures - Circuit Court Law Library

FOR the purpose of requiring the Clerk of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County to
transmit monthly a certain portion of certain fines and recognizances forfeited to St.
Mary's County to be used for certain purposes; requiring the county to maintain the
funds in a certain special fund; account; repealing a provision of law authorizing the St.
Mary's County Commissioners to pay certain additional amounts to the Clerk for the use
of the Circuit Court Law Library; and generally relating to the transfer of certain
funds to be used for the St. Mary's County Circuit Court Law Library.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 38 - Fines and Forfeitures
Section 5(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1993 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article 38 - Fines and Forfeitures

Section 5(h)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 38 - Fines and Forfeitures

Section 5(h)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 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 38 - Fines and Forfeitures

5.

(a) One half of the fines imposed and recognizances forfeited to the circuit court
for the several counties of the State shall be paid to the clerks of the respective courts, to
be expended under the direction of the judge or judges of said courts, for the
augmentation of the libraries of said courts. This section does not apply to Anne Arundel,
Somerset, Howard and Talbot Counties. The clerk shall retain a 5 percent commission on
the fines and forfeitures collected. In Baltimore County, this section shall not apply to
fines imposed in gambling cases.

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