(a) The State’s Attorney for a county may: (1) prosecute a municipal infraction; and (2) (i) enter a nolle prosequi; or (ii) place a municipal infraction case on the stet docket. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a municipality may designate an attorney to prosecute a municipal infraction in the same manner as the State’s Attorney for a county.
Maryland Legal Code