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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="5-804" title_number="5" title_name="Controlled Dangerous Substances, Prescriptions, and Other Substances" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Criminal Procedure">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “administrative probable cause” means a valid public interest in the effective enforcement of this title or regulations sufficient to justify administrative inspection of the area, premises, building, or conveyance in the circumstances specified in the application for the administrative inspection warrant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On showing of administrative probable cause, a judge of the State may issue an administrative inspection warrant to conduct:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>administrative inspections authorized by this title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>seizures of property appropriate to the inspections.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An administrative inspection warrant shall issue only on an affidavit:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>of a designated officer or employee with knowledge of the facts alleged;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>that is sworn to before the judge; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>that establishes the grounds for issuing the warrant.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the judge is satisfied that grounds for the application exist or that there is administrative probable cause to believe they exist, the judge shall issue an administrative inspection warrant that identifies:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the area, premises, building, or conveyance to be inspected;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the purpose of the inspection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>where appropriate, the type of property to be inspected.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The warrant shall be directed to a person authorized to execute it.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The warrant shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>identify the item or type of property to be seized;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>state the grounds for its issuance and the name of the affiant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>require the person to whom the warrant is directed to inspect the area, premises, building, or conveyance identified for the specified purpose;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>require, where appropriate, the seizure of the specified property;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>require that the warrant be served during normal business hours; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>designate the judge to whom the warrant is to be returned.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An administrative inspection warrant issued in accordance with this section shall be executed and returned within 10 days after its date.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If property is seized in accordance with an administrative inspection warrant, the person who executes the warrant:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall give to the person from whom or from whose premises the property was taken a copy of the warrant and a receipt for the property taken; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall leave the copy and receipt at the place from which the property was taken.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The warrant shall be returned promptly and be accompanied by a written inventory of any property taken.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The inventory shall be made in the presence of the person executing the warrant and:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the person from whose possession or premises the property was taken; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if that person is not present, at least one other credible person.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>On request, the judge shall deliver a copy of the inventory to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the person from whom or from whose premises the property was taken; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the applicant for the warrant.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>A judge who issues an administrative inspection warrant under this section shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>attach to the warrant a copy of the return and all papers filed in connection with the return; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>file them with the clerk of the court from which the warrant was issued.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
