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Ch. 512
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Article—Courts and Judicial Proceedings
7-302.
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) through [(e)] (F) of this section the
clerks of the District Court shall:
(1) Collect costs, fines, forfeitures, or penalties imposed by the court; and
(2) Remit them to the State under a system agreed upon by the Chief
Judge of the District Court and the Comptroller.
(b) If a parking or impounding fine, penalty, or forfeiture, or a fine, penalty, or
forfeiture relating to violation of housing, building, fire, health, or sanitation codes, or
a Mass Transit Fare Payment Statute, or a fine or penalty relating to failure to pay
the prescribed toll at a highway or vehicular crossing is collected by the District Court
pursuant to a local ordinance, law, or regulation of a political subdivision or
municipality, or pursuant to a regulation of an agency of State government authorized
to regulate parking of motor vehicles, or pursuant to a statute pertaining to the
payment of mass transit faros, or pursuant to a statute-pertaining to the failure to
pay tolls, it shall be remitted to the respective local government, or to the State
agency.
(e) Every agency of State government, political subdivision or municipality
which has enacted or which shall enact an ordinance, law, or regulation controlling
the parking of motor vehicles, or providing for the impounding of motor vehicles, or
pertaining to the failure to pay tolls shall provide that fines, penalties or forfeitures
for the violation of said ordinances, laws, or regulations shall be paid directly to the
State agency; political subdivision or municipality, and not to the District Court, in
uncontested cases.
(d) Every ordinance, law, or regulation controlling the parking of motor
vehicles or providing for impounding such vehicles or pertaining to the failure to pay
tolls shall provide that the person receiving a citation may elect to stand trial for said
offense by notifying the State agency, political subdivision or municipality of his
intention of standing trial, which notice shall be given at least five (5) days prior to
the date of payment as set forth in the citation. Upon receipt of the notice of such
intention to stand trial, the political subdivision or municipality shall forward to the
District Court in said political subdivision or municipality, and the State agency shall
forward to the District Court having venue, a copy of the citation and a copy of the
notice from the person who received the citation indicating his intention to stand
trial. Upon receipt thereof, the District Court shall schedule the case for trial and
notify the defendant of the trial date under procedures to be adopted by the Chief
Judge of the District Court. All parking or impounding fines, penalties or forfeitures
or failure to pay toll penalties collected through the District Court pursuant to a
parking or impounding or toll collection ordinance, law, or regulation enacted by a
State agency, political subdivision or municipality shall be remitted to the respective
local government or State agency.
(e) (1) A citation issued pursuant to § 21-202.1 of the Transportation Article
shall provide that the person receiving the citation may elect to stand trial by
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