Ch. 5

2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Former Art. 27, § 268D and part of § 268B, which prohibited hunting on the land
of another without permission in Anne Arundel County, Caroline County, and Harford
County, are revised in § 10-411 of the Natural Resources Article.

Former Art. 38A, § 34F, which authorized forfeiture of vehicles, vessels, and
aircraft used or employed during violation of the explosives laws, is revised in §
13-301 of the Criminal Procedure Article.

The Public Safety Article Review Committee considered several provisions
contained in the public safety laws to be more suitable for transfer to other articles or
for repeal than for revision in the Public Safety Article.

Former Art. 88B, §§ 64 through 69, the State Aid for Police Protection Fund, is
transferred to Article 41, §§ 4-401 through 4-406 of the Code.

Former Art. 41, § 4-906, which authorized citations for offenses on publicly
owned watershed property, is transferred to § 8-2003 of the Natural Resources
Article.

Former Art. 89, § 64, which prohibited smoking tobacco products in public
elevators and provided a civil penalty, is transferred to § 24-212 of the Health -
General Article.

Former Art. 89, § 2B, which provided for the termination of certain provisions
relating to the regulation of labor and industry, is repealed as duplicative of § 2-109
of the Labor and Employment Article.

A few provisions allocated to the Public Safety Article are transferred to the
Session Laws because of limited and diminishing applicability or limited duration. In
addition, some apparently obsolete provisions allocated to the Public Safety Article
are transferred to the Session Laws for historical purposes or to avoid any
inadvertent substantive effect their repeal might have.

In some instances, the staff of the Department of Legislative Services may
create "Special Revisor's Notes" to reflect the substantive effect of legislation enacted
during the 2003 Session on some provisions of this article.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article 1 - Rules of Interpretation

25.

(a)     Unnumbered revised articles of the Annotated Code of Maryland may be
cited as stated in this section.

(b)     A section of the Agriculture Article may be cited as: "§ ___ of the

Agriculture Article".

(c)     A section of the Business Occupations and Professions Article may be cited
as: "§___of the Business Occupations and Professions Article".

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