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60 CHANCERY. [ART. XVI
Nuisances by Maintenance of Places of Lewdness, Abatement
thereof and Injunctions against the Same.*
1918, ch. 84, sec. 136A.
136A. Whoever shall erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own
or rent any building, erection, or place used for purposes of lewdness,
assignation, or prostitution in the State of Maryland, is guilty of a
nuisance, and the building, erection, or place, and the ground itself
in or upon which such lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is con-
ducted, permitted or carried on, continued, or exists, and the furni-
ture, fixtures, musical instruments, and other contents thereof are also
declared a nuisance, and may be enjoined and abated as hereinafter
provided.
1918, ch. 84, sec. 136B.
136B. Whenever a nuisance is kept, maintained, or exists such as
is defined in this sub-title, the State's Attorney of any County or of
Baltimore City, or the Attorney-General of the State of Maryland, or
any citizen of the State of Maryland, may maintain an action in equity
in the name of the State of Maryland, upon the relation of such State's
Attorney, of the Attorney-General of the State of Maryland, or of such
citizen, to abate and perpetually enjoin said nuisance, and the person
or persons conducting or maintaining the same, and the owner or agent
of the building or ground upon which said nuisance exists from con-
tinning the same. In such action the Court shall, upon the presenta-
tion of a bill therefor alleging that the nuisance complained of exists,
allow a temporary writ of injunction, without bond, if it shall be. made
to appear to the satisfaction of the Court by evidence in the form of
affidavits, depositions, oral testimony, or otherwise, as the complainant
may elect, unless the Court or Judge by previous order shall have
directed the form and manner in which it shall be presented that such
nuisance probably exists.
1918, ch. 84, sec. 1360.
136C. Tn such action, evidence of the general reputation of the
place shall be admissible for the purpose of proving the existence of
said nuisance. If the complaint is filed by a citizen, it shall not be
dismissed except by order of the Court. If the Court is of the opinion
that the action ought not to be dismissed, it may direct the State's
Attorney of the County in which the action was brought, or of Balti-
more City, if brought there, to prosecute said action to final decree;
and if the action is continued more than one term of Court, any citizen
of the State of Maryland, or the State's Attorney of the said county or
city, may be substituted by order of Court for the relator, and prosecute
said action to decree. If the action is brought by a citizen, and the
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*sections 136A to 136H are effective only during the existence of the present
war and two years after its termination.
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