(22) Section 488 (relating to robbery with a deadly weapon).]

643B.

(a) As used in this section, the term "crime of violence" means abduction;
arson in the first degree; kidnapping; manslaughter, except involuntary
manslaughter; mayhem and maiming, as previously proscribed under §§ 384, 385,
and 386 of this article; murder; rape; robbery; robbery with a deadly weapon;
carjacking or armed carjacking; sexual offense in the first degree; sexual offense in
the second degree; use of a handgun in the commission of a felony or other crime of
violence; an attempt to commit any of the aforesaid offenses; assault in the first
degree; and assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to rape, assault with
intent to rob, assault with intent to commit a sexual offense in the first degree, and
assault with intent to commit a sexual offense in the second degree, as these crimes
were previously proscribed under former § 12 of this article.

The term "correctional institution" includes Patuxent Institution and a local or
regional jail or detention center.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1999.

Approved May 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 395
(House Bill 154)

AN ACT concerning

Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts - Powers of Corporations
and Boards of Directors - Extraordinary Actions

FOR the purpose of altering the power of a corporation to make certain gifts or
contributions by repealing certain restrictions on the power and allowing gifts or
contributions to be made in cash, other property, or stock or other securities of
the corporation; allowing a corporation to issue stock or other securities of the
corporation without consideration of any kind under certain circumstances;
allowing certain amendments to be made to the charter of a corporation or to the
declaration of trust of a real estate investment trust without stockholder or
shareholder approval; allowing a Maryland corporation to consolidate with and
merge into a corporation or business trust organized under the laws of a foreign
country; clarifying the circumstances under which certain mergers need be
approved only by a majority of the entire board of directors of a successor
corporation or board of trustees of a successor real estate investment trust;
allowing a Maryland real estate investment trust to merge into a business trust
organized under the laws of a foreign country; altering the circumstances under
which a merger of a 90 percent or more owned subsidiary corporation with or
into its parent corporation may be effected without stockholder approval;