PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

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forfeit and pay a civil penalty of not less, than $200 and not more than $1,000 in the
discretion of the court, for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or
negotiated to be sold; and the description of the lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the
instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transfer or
other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the
transaction from the penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The county or
municipal corporation may enjoin the transfer or sale or agreement by action for
injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may recover the penalty by civil
action in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(b)     In Charles and St. Mary's Counties this section does not apply to the sale or
negotiation for sale of industrial property.                                                                   

(c)     In Frederick [County] AND CARROLL COUNTIES, this section does not apply
to the contract for sale or negotiation for sale of property zoned industrial, commercial,
or both industrial and commercial, if a plat is approved and recorded in accordance with
this article prior to the transfer of land.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved May 23, 1996.

CHAPTER 565

(Senate Bill 88)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Records - Expungement - Criminal and Traffic Offenses

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a violation of a the Maryland Vehicle Law or any other
traffic law that is not punishable by a term of imprisonment from being considered
as part of a certain unit for purposes of expungement of criminal records;
prohibiting a certain violation of a traffic law precluding such violations from
preventing expungement of any criminal charge that arises from the same incident,
transaction, or set of facts as the traffic violation if the person who is charged with
the traffic violation is otherwise entitled to an expungement on any other criminal
charge; and generally relating to expungement of criminal records.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 738

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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