Terms Used In Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 8-501

  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
(a) An employer may not deprive an individual of employment or coerce, intimidate, or threaten to discharge an individual because the individual:

(1) Loses employment time in responding to a summons under this title or attending, or being in proximity to, a circuit court for jury service under this title; or

(2) Exercises a right to refrain from work under subsection (b) of this section.

(b) An employer may not require an individual who is summoned and appears for jury service for 4 or more hours, including traveling time, to work an employment shift that begins:

(1) On or after 5 p.m. on the day of the individual’s appearance for jury service; or

(2) Before 3 a.m. on the day following the individual’s appearance for jury service.

(c) A person who violates any provision of this section is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000.