Section 7-203 - Courts prohibited from charging fees or costs in certain criminal proceedings. - Maryland Statutes

§ 7-203. Courts prohibited from charging fees or costs in certain criminal proceedings.
 

(a)  "Not guilty" defined.- In this section, the term "not guilty" does not include a finding of probation before judgment under § 6-220 of the Criminal Procedure Article. 

(b)  Criminal proceedings involving a county or Baltimore City; charging defendants found not guilty.-  

(1) The clerk of the circuit court may not charge a county or Baltimore City with fees or costs of a criminal proceeding, regardless of whether the fee or cost was imposed or allowed by statute or common law. 

(2) The clerk of a circuit court may not charge a defendant with the costs of a criminal proceeding in which the defendant is found not guilty. 
 

[1986, ch. 550; 1993, ch. 5, § 1; 2001, ch. 35.]