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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="4-501" title_number="4" title_name="Weapon Crimes" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Destructive Devices">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Destructive device” means explosive material, incendiary material, or toxic material that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>combined with a delivery or detonating apparatus so as to be capable of inflicting injury to persons or damage to property; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>deliberately modified, containerized, or otherwise equipped with a special delivery, activation, or detonation component that gives the material destructive characteristics of a military ordnance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Destructive device” includes a bomb, grenade, mine, shell, missile, flamethrower, poison gas, Molotov cocktail, pipe bomb, and petroleum-soaked ammonium nitrate.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Explosive material” means material that explodes when detonated and has a destructive capability.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Explosive material” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>explosives as defined in § 11-101 of the Public Safety Article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>dynamite for construction work, ammonium nitrate, natural gas in pipelines or storage tanks, ether, and cannisterized oxygen for health care facilities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Explosive material” does not include items excluded from explosives in § 11-101 of the Public Safety Article when the items are used in their original configuration.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Incendiary material” means a flammable or combustible liquid.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Incendiary material” includes gasoline, acetone, benzene, butane, jet fuel, fuel oil, kerosene, and diesel fuel.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Toxic material” means material that is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury almost immediately on being absorbed through the skin, inhaled, or ingested.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Toxic material” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>nerve gas, mustard gas, cyanide gas, chlorine gas, sulphuric acid, or their precursors; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a biological substance containing a disease organism or microorganism.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
