ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 68

(5) on property owned, leased, or operated by or under the control of the
Maryland Transportation Authority, the Maryland Aviation Administration, or the
Maryland Port Administration, shall be made to the respective chief of police or the
chief's designee.

(k) When acting under the authority granted in subsection (h) or (i) of this
section, a law enforcement officer:

(1)     in addition to any other immunities and exemptions to which the
officer may be entitled, has the immunities from liability and exemptions accorded to
a law enforcement officer of the Department of State Police; but

(2)     remains an employee of the officer's employing agency.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2003.

Approved April 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 68
(House Bill 598)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Law - Identity Fraud - Penalties

FOR the purpose of increasing a certain maximum term of imprisonment and a
certain maximum fine for a person knowingly, willfully, and with fraudulent
intent possessing, obtaining, or helping another person to possess or obtain any
personal identifying information of an individual without consent in order to
use, sell, or transfer the information to get a benefit, credit, good, service, or
other thing of value of a certain value or greater in the name of the individual;
increasing a certain maximum term of imprisonment and a certain maximum
fine for a person knowingly and willfully assuming the identity of another to
avoid identification, apprehension, or prosecution for a crime, or to get a certain
benefit or avoid certain obligations with fraudulent intent, where the certain
benefit, credit, good, service, or other thing of value is of a certain value or
greater; increasing a certain maximum term of imprisonment and a certain
maximum fine for a person who violates certain offenses provisions of law under
circumstances that reasonably indicate an intent to manufacture, distribute, or
dispense certain personal identifying information without consent; and
generally relating to penalties for offenses relating to personal identifying
information.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Criminal Law
Section 8-301
Annotated Code of Maryland

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