PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                                 Ch. 8

(ii) Inflicted personal injury on another, requiring the injured person
to incur medical, dental, hospital, funeral, or burial expenses; or

(iii) Caused the victim of the delinquent act to incur reasonable
counseling expenses from a licensed health care provider, if the delinquent act involved:

1.       Personal injury;

2.       Child abuse under Article 27, § 35A of the Code;

3.       Abuse or neglect of vulnerable persons under Article 27, §
35B of the Code;

4.       Incest, rape, or sexual offense in any degree;

5.       Sodomy under Article 27, § 553 of the Code; or

6.       Unnatural or perverted sexual practices under Article 27, §
554 of the Code.

(2)     The court may order the parent of a child, a child, or both to make
restitution to:

(i) The victim;

(ii) Any governmental entity, including the Criminal Injuries
Compensation Board; or

(iii) A third party payor, including an insurer, that has made payment
to the victim to compensate the victim for a property loss under paragraph (1)(i) of this
subsection or pecuniary loss under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection.

(3)     (i) Restitution payments to the victim have priority over restitution
payments to a third party payor.

(ii) If the victim has been compensated for the victim's loss by a third
party payor, the court may order restitution payments to the third party payor in the
amount that the third party payor compensated the victim.

(4)     Payment of restitution to a victim under this section has priority over
payment of restitution to any governmental entity.

(b)     Considering the age and circumstances of a child, the court may order the
child to make restitution to the wronged person personally.

(c)     (1) A judgment rendered under this section may not exceed:

(i) As to property stolen, destroyed, converted, or unlawfully
obtained, the lesser of the fair market value of the property or [$5,000] $10,000;

(ii) As to property damaged, or substantially decreased in value, the
lesser of the amount of damage or the decrease in value of the property not to exceed the
fair market value of the property or [$5,000] $10,000; and

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