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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 780

IN MARYLAND DOES NOT HAVE TO OBTAIN ANOTHER TRADERS'

LICENSE UNDER SECTION 33 OF THIS ARTICLE FOR THE SHOW IF

THE EXHIBITOR PRESENTS A PHOTOCOPY OF THE LICENSE TO THE
PROMOTER PRIOR TO THE SHOW.

(C) AN EXHIBITOR AT A SHOW WHO DOES NOT HAVE A

VALID TRADERS' LICENSE FOR A STORE OR FIXED PLACE OF

BUSINESS IN MARYLAND SHALL OBTAIN A TRADERS' LICENSE

UNDER SECTION 33 OF THIS ARTICLE THAT IS VALID THROUGHOUT

THE STATE FOR ALL SHOWS IN WHICH THE EXHIBITOR

PARTICIPATES.

(D) THE PROMOTER OF A SHOW MAY NOT ALLOW AN

EXHIBITOR AT THE SHOW TO [[DISPLAY, OFFER FOR SALE, OR]]

SELL GOODS, WARES, CHATTELS, OR MERCHANDISE WITHOUT

PRESENTING TO THE PROMOTER PRIOR TO THE SHOW A PHOTOCOPY

OF THE TRADERS' LICENSE OF THE EXHIBITOR.

(E) A PROMOTER WHO FAILS TO COMPLY WITH SUBSECTION

(D) IS SUBJECT TO THE PENALTIES IN SECTION 9 OF THIS

ARTICLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
3 of Article 56 — Licenses, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be
and it is hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

Article 56 - Licenses

3.

Receipts from licenses issued for billiard tables,
bowling alleys, carnivals, chain stores, cigarettes,
circus, cleaning, dyeing and pressing, construction
firms, garages, hawkers and peddlers, laundries, motion
picture machines, moving picture shows, plumbers and gas
fitters, restaurant or eating places, shows, soda water
fountains, theatres, traders, and [and] wholesale dealers
in farm machinery [[AND PROMOTERS]] shall be accounted
for and paid over as hereinafter prescribed. The clerk
issuing any of the licenses enumerated herein shall
retain as a fee of his office the present percentage of
license revenues as authorized by law and the additional
issuance fee now allowed and a further [three] 3 percent
[ (3%) ] of license revenues to be paid into the general
fund of the State to defray the expenses of the State
License Bureau. All net proceeds received from the said
licenses remaining after the deductions hereinabove
authorized shall be paid by the said clerks to the
incorporated town or city in which the licensed business
or activity is located. Where the licensed business or
activity is not located in an incorporated town or city,
the net proceeds shall be paid to the county in which the
licensed business or activity is located, provided
however, that the provisions of this section shall be
construed to apply only to licenses issued after June 30,
1947, and provided further, that this section, insofar as