Ch. 376                                    2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Commissioner to regulate the debt management services business under this subtitle,
the excess amount shall be carried forward within the Fund.

(g) The Office of Legislative Audits shall audit the accounts and transactions
of the Fund under § 2-1220 of the State Government Article.]

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 5 of this Act shall

take effect October 1, 2003, contingent on the taking effect of Chapter____ (H.B.

1155) of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2003, and if Chapter ____ does not

become effective, Section 5 of this Act shall be null and void without the necessity of
further action by the General Assembly.

SECTION 3. 7. 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, subject to Section 6
of this Act, this Act shall take effect October 1, 2003.

Approved May 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 376
(Senate Bill 383)

AN ACT concerning

Drunk and Drugged Driving Alcohol- or Drug-Related Offenses - Custodian
Liability Warning—Offender Detention—Vehicle Impoundment Prohibition

on Driving (John's Law)

FOR the purpose of requiring law enforcement agencies to provide certain custodians
with a written statement advising of potential criminal or civil liability for
allowing or facilitating a person who has been arrested for a certain drunk or
drugged driving violation to operate a motor vehicle while the person remains
under the influence of alcohol or impaired by alcohol or drugs; requiring a
custodian to acknowledge, in writing, receipt of the statement or, if the
custodian refuses, requiring the law enforcement agency to record that the
statement was provided but the custodian refused to sign an acknowledgment;
requiring a law enforcement officer to detain certain persons based on probable
cause of a violation of certain drunk or drugged driving offenses for a certain
period of time; requiring the arresting law enforcement agency to impound for a
certain period the motor vehicle that the arrestee was operating at the time of
the arrest; establishing requirements for the release of a motor vehicle
impounded under this Act; requiring the Attorney General to perform certain
duties and adopt certain regulations; clarifying that this Act does not impose a
duty on certain physicians or other health care providers; defining certain
terms; and generally relating to prohibiting a person who is arrested for certain
alcohol- or drug-related offenses from driving a motor vehicle for a certain
period; providing for an assessment of points against an individual and certain
penalties for a violation of this Act; and generally relating to a prohibition
against driving a motor vehicle for a certain period after an arrest for certain
drunk or drugged driving offenses.

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