PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                              Ch. 754

supervising authority on a specified date; requiring the supervising authority to provide
the registrant with specified information when the registrant registers; requiring the
supervising authority to send the registration statement to the Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services; requiring the Department to maintain a central registry
of registrants; requiring the Department to reimburse supervising authorities for the cost
of processing the registration statement; requiring the Department to transmit the
conviction data and fingerprints of a registrant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
requiring the Department to send a copy of the registration statement to certain persons;
requiring the Department to send written notice of the registration statement to the local
law enforcement agency and county superintendent of schools in the county where the
registrant will reside; requiring copies of the registration statement to be sent to specified
organizations and persons under certain circumstances; providing for the contents of
certain registration statements; requiring a registrant who changes residence to send
written notice of the change to the Department; requiring the Department to give notice
of the change of residence to the local law enforcement agency in the county where the
new residence is located; requiring the Department to send verification forms to certain
registrants for a specified period of time; requiring child sexual offenders and sexually
violent predators to register in a certain manner with local law enforcement agencies
under certain circumstances; establishing procedures and requirements concerning
petitions to determine whether a person is no longer a sexually violent predator; altering
certain time periods; requiring the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services to
adopt regulations to implement this Act; requiring the Department to conduct certain
public education and awareness programs; providing for the application of this Act;
providing that this Act does not impose certain duties or require certain disclosures under
certain circumstances; allowing the Court of Appeals to adopt certain rules; requiring a
certain report; defining certain terms; and generally relating to the registration of certain
child and sexual offenders.

BY adding to

Article 27—Crimes and Punishments
Section 792A and 792B
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

BY renumbering

Article 27- Crimes and Punishments

Section 792(b). (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), and (k), respectively

to be Section 792(e), (f), (g), (h), (d), (i), (j), (k), and (l), respectively

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 792

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

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