Ch. 561

1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

revocation of a firearms purchase approval designation under certain circumstances;
providing for a hearing process; adding certain exceptions to the prohibition against
carrying or possessing certain weapons on certain school property; prohibiting a
person from disarming a law enforcement officer under certain circumstances;
making certain penalties applicable to the discharge of a firearm from a motor
vehicle; providing that a person who possesses a firearm during and in relation to a
drug trafficking offense under certain circumstances is guilty of a separate felony
and subject to certain penalties; clarifying that a person is guilty of a separate
misdemeanor if the person uses a certain firearm in the commission of certain
crimes whether the firearm is operable or inoperable; authorizing the court to order
a certain respondent to surrender a firearm for a certain period under certain
circumstances; requiring a law enforcement officer who responds to a domestic
violence scene to remove a firearm from certain premises under certain
circumstances; requiring a law enforcement officer to provide certain information to
the owner of a firearm and to provide for the safe storage of the firearm;
authorizing the use of a facsimile machine to forward a certain application to the
Department of State Police; revising, reorganizing, and clarifying certain laws
pertaining to the sale, rental, or transfer of certain regulated firearms by certain
individuals; providing that certain sales, transfers, and possessions of firearms
prohibited under federal law are. prohibited under State law; altering a certain
notice provision on a certain application; altering certain fees; defining certain
terms; altering certain definitions; providing certain penalties; providing for a
certain statute of limitations for the prosecution of certain misdemeanors created by
this Act; making stylistic and technical changes; and generally relating to gun
violence guns and weapons.

BY repealing

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 406, 441, and 448, and 481E

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 36A-1 to be under the new subheading "Disarming a Law Enforcement

Officer"; and 441, 441A, 442A, 442B, 445A, 445B, 448, and 449 to be under

the amended subheading "Regulated Firearms"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 36A, 36B(d), 120, 281A, 442, 443, 443A, 445, and 446 .
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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