Ch. 523 1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b) A residential lease of property in Baltimore City entered into after July 1,
1975, may not contain a liquidated damages clause or a penalty clause.

(c) In Baltimore City, in determining the existence of a liquidated damages clause
or a penalty clause, all provisions shall be strictly construed to be a liquidated damages
clause or a penalty clause.

(d) The provisions in this section may not be waived in any residential lease of
property or space in Baltimore City.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 523
(House Bill 1169)

AN ACT concerning

Graffiti - Punishments for Adults and Juveniles

FOR the purpose of requiring a court to order a person committing an act of graffiti to
pay restitution or perform community service; requiring the juvenile court to order
the child to perform community service or pay restitution or both; defining a certain
term; and generally relating to punishing certain persons for committing certain acts
relating to graffiti under certain circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 111 and 808
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

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

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

111.

(a) Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously destroy, injure, deface or molest
any real or personal property of another shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) If the amount of damage to the property defaced, destroyed, injured, or
molested has a value of less than $300, the person who violates this section, on conviction,
is subject to a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment not exceeding 60 days or both.

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