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<section article="ggp" article_name="General Provisions" number="4-315" title_number="4" title_name="Public Information Act" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Denials of Inspection">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only to public records that relate to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>police reports of traffic accidents;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>criminal charging documents before service on the defendant named in the document; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>traffic citations filed in the Maryland Automated Traffic System.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A custodian shall deny inspection of a record described in subsection (a) of this section to any of the following persons who request inspection of records to solicit or market legal services:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an attorney who is not an attorney of record of a person named in the record; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a person who is employed by, retained by, associated with, or acting on behalf of an attorney described in this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
