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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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H.B. 647
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sources, the conduct may be considered as one offense and the value of the property or
services aggregated in determining whether the theft is a felony or a misdemeanor.
342.
(f) (1) A person convicted of theft where the property or services that was
the subject of the theft has a value of [$300] $500 or greater is guilty of a felony and
shall restore the property taken to the owner or pay him the value of the property or
services, and be fined not more than $1,000, or be imprisoned for not more than 15
years, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.
(2) A person convicted of theft where the property or services that was
the subject of the theft has a value of less than [$300] $500 is guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall restore the property taken to the owner or pay him the value of the property
or services, and be fined not more than $500, or be imprisoned for not more than 18
months, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court; however, all
actions or prosecutions for theft where the property or services that was the subject of
the theft has a value of less than [$300] $500 shall be commenced within 2 years after
the commission of the offense.
372.
"Machine gun" as used in this subtitle, means a weapon, of any description, by
whatever name known, loaded or unloaded, from which more than one shot or bullet
may be automatically discharged from a magazine, by a single function of the firing
device.
"Crime of violence" applies to and includes any of the following crimes or an
attempt to commit any of the same, namely, murder of any degree, manslaughter,
kidnapping, rape in any degree, assault in the first degree, robbery UNDER § 486, § 487,
OR § 468 OR § 487 OF THIS ARTICLE, burglary in any degree, escape in the first degree,
and theft.
"Person" applies to and includes firm, partnership, association, or corporation.
410.
All murder which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to
perpetrate, any rape in any degree, sexual offense in the first or second degree,
sodomy, mayhem, robbery UNDER § 486, § 487, OR § 488 OR § 487 OF THIS ARTICLE,
carjacking or armed carjacking, burglary in the first, second, or third degree, a
violation of § 139C of this article concerning destructive devices, kidnapping as
defined in §§ 337 and 338 of this article, or in the escape in the first degree or attempt
to escape in the first degree from the Patuxent Institution, any institution or facility
under the jurisdiction of the Division of Correction or the Division of Pretrial
Detention and Services, or from any jail or penal institution in any of the counties of
this State, shall be murder in the first degree.
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