Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 1-1304 - Civil penalties(a) In this section, "civil penalty" means a civil fine or other monetary penalty administratively imposed.(b) Unless otherwise provided by statute, ordinance, or regulation, an officer or unit of a county, municipality, bicounty agency, or board of license commissioners authorized by law to impose a civil penalty up to a specific dollar amount for violation of a statute, ordinance, or regulation shall consider the following in setting the amount of the civil penalty: (1) the severity of the violation;(2) the good faith of the violator; and(3) any history of prior violations.Renumbered by 2013 Md. Laws, Ch. 493,Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2013.Revised and recodified by 2013 Md. Laws, Ch. 119,Sec. 2, eff. 10/1/2013.