Headen v. Motor Vehicle Administration

Resolution of this case requires us to construe several provisions of the Transportation Article of the Maryland Code (1977, 2009 RepLVol.) (hereafter “TR”). The first of those is TR § 16-117.1, which provides in relevant part that, upon satisfaction of certain requirements, a licensee may “appl[y] for the expungement of the licensee’s public driving record.” We must decide how that section is to be applied, given a separate provision of that subtitle, TR § 12-lll(b)(2), which authorizes the MVA to maintain “confidential” records. We also must interpret TR § 16-103.1(1), which provides in…