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<subtitle article="gsg" title_number="2" subtitle_number="17" title_name="General Assembly" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
  <section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="2-1701" title_number="2" title_name="General Assembly" subtitle_number="17" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A person who is not a member of the General Assembly may not operate an electrical voting machine to vote on a question before the Senate or the House.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>In addition to any penalty that the Senate or the House sets, a person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment for not more than 5 years.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="2-1702" title_number="2" title_name="General Assembly" subtitle_number="17" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A person may not willfully disrupt, interfere with, attempt to disrupt, or attempt to interfere with a session, meeting, or proceeding of the General Assembly, the Senate, or the House or any of their committees, by:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>making, alone or with another person, a noise that tends to be disruptive;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>using abusive or obscene language;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>making an obscene gesture;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>engaging in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="5">
        <text>refusing to comply with the lawful order of the police to disperse; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="6">
        <text>doing any other disruptive or interfering act.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A person may not picket willfully in a building where:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>the Senate or the House has a chamber;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>a member of the General Assembly has an official office; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>a committee of the General Assembly, the Senate, or the House has an office.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>A person may not prevent or attempt to prevent, willfully and with force, the performance of a function, power, or duty by a member, officer, or employee of the General Assembly, the Senate, or the House or any of their committees.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>A person may not:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>willfully and without legal authority, obtain, withhold, destroy, deface, or alter an official document or record of the General Assembly, the Senate, or the House or any of their committees; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>without legal authority, possess, withhold, destroy, or deface real or personal property that the General Assembly, the Senate, or the House or any of their committees owns or uses.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <level label="1">
        <text>This subsection does not apply to:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>a law enforcement officer of any state or of the federal government who is carrying out duties of the office; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>a person whom the officer summons to help in making an arrest or in preserving the peace.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>A person may not willfully bring an assault weapon or other firearm or destructive device, as defined in § 4-501 of the Criminal Law Article, into or have an assault weapon or other firearm or destructive device in a building where:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>the Senate or the House has a chamber;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>a member, officer, or employee of the General Assembly has an official office; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iii">
          <text>a committee of the General Assembly, the Senate, or the House has an office.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="f">
      <text>A person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or both.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>