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<section article="gcp" article_name="Criminal Procedure" number="12-201" title_number="12" title_name="Forfeiture -- Controlled Dangerous Substances Violations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Seizure">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A Schedule I substance listed in § 5–402 of the Criminal Law Article shall be seized and summarily forfeited to the State if the substance is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>possessed, transferred, sold, or offered for sale in violation of the Controlled Dangerous Substances law; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>possessed by the State and its owner is not known.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A plant may be seized and summarily forfeited to the State if the plant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is one from which a Schedule I or Schedule II substance listed in § 5–402 or § 5–403 of the Criminal Law Article may be derived; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>has been planted or cultivated in violation of the Controlled Dangerous Substances law;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has an unknown owner or cultivator; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is a wild growth.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Maryland Department of Health may seize and subject a plant to forfeiture if the person that occupies or controls the place where the plant is growing or being stored fails, on demand from the Maryland Department of Health, to produce an appropriate registration or proof that the person is the holder of a registration.</text>
  </level>
</section>
