# Commercial Law (GCL)

## Title 18. Bills of Lading and Warehouse Receipts -- Criminal Provisions

### Subtitle 2. Bills of Lading

#### Section 18-205

A person with intent to defraud may not issue or aid in issuing a nonnegotiable bill of lading without a conspicuous notation on its face of the words "not negotiable" or "nonnegotiable".

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Md. Code Ann., Com. Law (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)