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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="7-206" title_number="7" title_name="Costs, Fines, and Forfeitures" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Circuit Court">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If a criminal or traffic case is appealed from the District Court to a circuit court, the fine and costs collected in the District Court, including costs collected under Maryland Rule 7-103, shall be forwarded to the circuit court for disposition in accordance with this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If the appeal in a criminal or traffic case is disposed of other than by acquittal, nolle prosequi, or stet, a fine imposed by the circuit court and the circuit court costs, including the sum paid under Maryland Rule 7-103(c), shall be disposed of in the same manner as are fines and costs in a criminal case heard by the circuit court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction. The District Court costs shall be returned to the District Court.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In a civil case, the court costs shall be disposed of in the same manner as are other costs in a civil case heard by the circuit court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction.</text>
  </level>
</section>
