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APPLICABLE, THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS OF THIS SEC-
TION APPLY TO PROCEEDINGS UNDER THIS SUBSECTION.

(E) ANY PERSON (INCLUDING ONE ACTING FOR OR ON
BEHALF OF A FIRM, ASSOCIATION, OR CORPORATION) IS
GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR IF

(1)   HE HAS CLAIMED TO BE AGGRIEVED UNDER THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBTITLE; AND

(2)  HE HAS PURSUED THE COMPLAINT UNDER SECTIONS
13 AND 14 OF THIS SUBTITLE, OR EITHER OF THESE SEC-
TIONS; AND

(3)   THE COMMISSION OR THE COURT HAS FOUND THE
COMPLAINT TO HAVE BEEN MADE MALICIOUSLY; AND

(4)   THE COMMISSION OR THE COURT HAS FOUND THE
COMPLAINT TO BE UNFOUNDED OR HAS DISMISSED IT
WITHOUT FURTHER ACTION AGAINST THE RESPONDENT.

UPON CONVICTION THEREOF IN THE APPROPRIATE
CRIMINAL COURT, HE IS SUBJECT TO A FINE OF FROM
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS TO FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, OR
TO IMPRISONMENT FOR A PERIOD NOT EXCEEDING ONE
YEAR, OR TO BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT IN
THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT.

THIS SUBSECTION SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED OR AP-
PLIED TO DENY OR ABRIDGE THE RIGHT OF A RESPOND-
ENT TO BRING ANY CIVIL ACTION AGAINST ONE WHO HAS
FILED A COMPLAINT UNDER THIS SUBTITLE.

15.

NOTHING IN THIS SUBTITLE SHALL APPLY TO OR WITH-
IN THE LIMITS OF ANNE ARUNDEL, CALVERT, CAROLINE,
DORCHESTER, GARRETT, KENT, QUEEN ANNE'S, ST.
MARY'S, SOMERSET, TALBOT, WICOMICO, AND WORCESTER
COUNTIES. THE APPLICATION OF THIS SECTION TO AND
WITHIN CARROLL COUNTY IS SUBJECT TO THE RESULTS
OF A REFERENDUM ELECTION IN THAT COUNTY, FOR
WHICH FURTHER PROVISION IS MADE HEREIN.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT NOTHING
IN THIS ACT SHALL APPLY TO OR WITHIN THE LIMITS
OF CARROLL COUNTY UNLESS IT HAS BEEN APPROVED
ON REFERENDUM BY THE VOTERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.
AT A TIME TO BE FIXED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM-
MISSIONERS OF CARROLL COUNTY (IN NO EVENT LATER
THAN THE TIME OF THE REGULAR CONGRESSIONAL ELEC-
TION IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1964), THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVI-
SORS OF ELECTIONS IN CARROLL COUNTY SHALL PLACE
THIS QUESTION BEFORE THE VOTERS OF THE COUNTY.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS SHALL DO SUCH THINGS
AS ARE NECESSARY AND PROPER TO PLACE THIS QUES-
TION ON THE BALLOTS OR ON THE BALLOT LABELS OF