HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1925

dollars] $300, or if any person shall break into any ship,
storehouse, tobacco house, warehouse, or other building,
although the same be not contiguous to or used with any

mansion house, and steals from thence any money,__goods or

chattels under the value of five dollars, he, his aiders,
abettors and counsellors shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be tried before any court of competent
jurisdiction, and being thereof convicted, shall restore the
goods and chattels so stolen, or pay the full value thereof
to the owner thereof, and be further sentenced to the
penitentiary or house of correction, or to the jail of the
county in which the offense may have been committed, or of

the City of Baltimore, if the offense be committed in said

city, in the discretion of the court for not more than
eighteen months.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended, or
enacted to read as follows:

Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments

32.

Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who
shall be convicted of the crime of breaking a storehouse,
filling station, garage, trailer, cabin, diner, warehouse or
other outhouse or into a boat in the day or night with an
intent to commit murder or felony therein, or with the
intent to steal, take or carry away the personal goods of
another of the value of [one hundred dollars ($100,00)] $300
or more therefrom, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon
conviction sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than
ten years.

SECTION 2 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 688

(Senate Bill 19)

AN ACT concerning

Mentally Ill — Private Group Homes

FOR the purpose of providing for regulation and licensure of
private group homes for the mentally ill; establishing
standards for the issuance of initial permits licenses
to operate such homes; providing procedures for