Ch. 8

1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

hearing must shall be held if a petition for detention is granted; providing that a
disposition hearing must shall be held within a certain time period if a juvenile is
detained after an adjudicatory hearing; reducing the time period for which
detention of a juvenile may be extended under certain circumstances; providing that
law enforcement officers must shall file complaints within certain time periods after
taking a child into custody; creating certain exceptions to the rule of confidentiality
concerning certain records of children; requiring disclosure to and confidential use
of certain juvenile record information of a child to the local superintendent of
schools for the purpose of providing appropriate educational programming;
increasing the limit on the amount of restitution that a court may require a child or
the child's parent to pay when a child who is charged as an adult is convicted of a
crime or when a child is found to have committed a delinquent act; requiring the
Secretary of Juvenile Justice to establish and implement a misdemeanor civil
citation pilot program for certain youth who have committed certain misdemeanors;
identifying the jurisdictions in which the Department and law enforcement agencies
must implement the program; providing for the application of the program;
requiring the Department to issue regulations implementing the provisions of the
program by a certain date; providing for community service for youth who receive
civil citations under the pilot program; authorizing law enforcement officers to issue
civil citations to certain youth who have committed certain misdemeanors; renaming
the Department of Juvenile Services as the Department of Juvenile Justice;
providing for the effective dates of this Act; providing for the termination of certain
provisions of this Act; and generally relating to juvenile justice.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 640(a)(1), (3), and (6) and (b)(1) and (2)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 640(m)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 3-810, 3-815, 3-828(a) and (b), and 3-829
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article—Education
Section 7 302
Annotated Code of Maryland

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