PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Approved May 8, 1997.

Ch. 343

CHAPTER 343
(Senate Bill 279)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes - Explosives and Destructive Devices - Revision

FOR the purpose of revising and restating the laws concerning explosives and destructive
devices; repealing provisions of law concerning fire bombs and vehicles, dynamiting,
fire bombs, destructive explosive devices, and pipe bombs; prohibiting a person
from manufacturing, transporting, possessing, controlling, storing, selling,
distributing, or using a destructive device; prohibiting a person from possessing
certain materials with intent to create a destructive device; providing certain
penalties; providing for certain restitution to certain persons under certain
circumstances; making a certain misdemeanor offense a felony; altering certain
penalties for offenses relating to false statements and devices constructed to
represent destructive devices; providing that a murder committed during the course
of a violation concerning destructive devices is first degree murder; altering the
authority of the State Fire Marshal to make warrantless arrests; authorizing the
State Fire Marshal to investigate destructive device offenses and to make arrests for
these offenses; prohibiting bail for persons charged with a destructive device offense
under certain circumstances; allowing the interception of wire, oral, or electronic
communications concerning destructive device offenses under certain
circumstances; making stylistic, conforming, and substantive changes to provisions
that include references to explosives and destructive devices; providing that this Act
does not apply to certain persons under certain circumstances; providing that
certain Committee Notes and catchlines contained in this Act are not law; defining
certain terms; and generally relating to explosives and destructive devices.

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

Section 33, 111B, 151A, 151C, 410, 594B(i), and 616 1/2(c) and (d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 119 and 139A through 139C and the subheading "Explosives"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

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