Ch. 97

2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 97
(Senate Bill 513)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Law - Altering the Results of a Drug or Alcohol Screening Test -

Penalties

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person, with intent to defraud or alter the outcome
of a certain drug or alcohol screening test, from altering certain bodily fluid,
substituting a certain sample with another, or possessing or using a certain
bodily fluid adulterant; prohibiting a person, with intent to defraud or alter the
outcome of a certain drug or alcohol screening test, from selling, distributing,
offering to sell or distribute, or transporting into the State, certain bodily fluids
or bodily fluid adulterants; establishing certain penalties; defining certain
terms; and generally relating to certain drug or alcohol screening tests.

BY adding to

Article - Criminal Law
Section 10-111
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Criminal Law

10-111.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(2)      "BODILY FLUID" MEANS BLOOD, URINE, SALIVA, OR OTHER BODILY
FLUID.

(3)      "BODILY FLUID ADULTERANT" MEANS ANY SUBSTANCE OR
CHEMICAL THAT IS INTENDED, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALTERING THE RESULTS OF A
DRUG OR ALCOHOL SCREENING TEST, TO BE:

(I)      CONSUMED BY A PERSON;

(II)     INTRODUCED INTO THE BODY OF A PERSON; OR

(III)   ADDED TO A SAMPLE OF BODILY FLUID.

(4)      "CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE" HAS THE MEANING
STATED IN § 5-101 OF THIS ARTICLE.

(5)      "DRUG" HAS THE MEANING STATED IN § 5-101 OF THIS ARTICLE.

(6)      "DRUG OR ALCOHOL SCREENING TEST" MEANS AN ANALYSIS OF A

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