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Ch. 40 2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2002.
Approved April 9, 2002.
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CHAPTER 40
(House Bill 194)
AN ACT concerning
Business Regulation - Returnable Container - Warrant
FOR the purpose of requiring a person who has registered a returnable container or a
returnable textile and who makes a certain affidavit to demonstrate probable
cause to believe that the law pertaining to certain returnable containers and
marked returnable textiles is being violated before a search warrant may be
issued; and generally relating to returnable containers and textiles.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Business Regulation
Section 19-305(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(As enacted by Chapter 26 (H.B. 11) of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2002)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Business Regulation
19-305.
(a) A District Court judge shall issue a search warrant, authorizing a search of
the premises specified in the warrant, to a sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other law
enforcement officer to whom a warrant may be directed, if a person who has
registered a returnable container or returnable textile, or the person's agent, makes
an affidavit before the judge, stating that:
(1) the affiant [reasonably believes] DEMONSTRATES PROBABLE CAUSE
TO BELIEVE that a violation of § 19-304(a), (b), (c), or (d) of this subtitle has occurred;
and
(2) evidence of the violation may be obtained by a search of premises
specified by the affiant.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2002.
Approved April 9, 2002.
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