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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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to pay a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than fifty dol-
lars, for the first offense. For any subsequent offense the fine shall be not
less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. In default of
payment of a fine and costs, the defendant shall be sentenced to imprison-
ment in the prison of the county, or in Baltimore City, where such offense
was committed, for not less than ten days, and not more than thirty days.
All fines shall be paid by the Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to the
Board, and by it paid into the State Treasury.

1922, ch. 390, sec. 20A.

21. Any person who shall exhibit in public any misbranded film or
film carrying official approval of the Board which approval was not put
there by the action of the Board, or any person who shall attach to or
use in connection with any film or view which has not been approved and
licensed by the Maryland State Board of Censors, any certificate or state-
ment in the form provided by Section 7 hereof or any similar certificate,
statement or writing, or any person who shall exhibit any folder, poster,
picture or other advertising matter, which folder, poster, picture or other
advertising matter is obscene, indecent, sacrilegious, inhuman or immoral,
or which tends to unduly excite or deceive the public, or containing any
matter not therein contained when the approval was granted by the Board,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction summarily before
a Justice of the Peace, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor
more than one hundred dollars ($100), or imprisonment for not over
thirty days, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the said
Justice of the Peace. In addition to the above penalties, the Board may
also seize and confiscate any misbranded film.

In all cases arising under this section there may be an appeal from the
decision of the Magistrate or Justice of the Peace where the fine imposed
is in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00), or where the penalty imposed includes
any term of imprisonment whatever.

1922, ch. 390, sec. 21.

22. If any person shall fail to display or exhibit on the screen the
approval seal, as issued by the Board, of a film or view, which has been
approved, and is convicted summarily before any Magistrate, or Justice of
the Peace, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than five dollars
and not more than ten dollars; in default of payment of a fine and costs,
the defendant shall be sentenced to imprisonment, in the prison of the
county, or in Baltimore City, where such offense was committed, for not
less than two days and not more than five days.

1922, ch. 390, sec. 22.

23. This Article shall not apply to any non-commercial exhibition of,
or non-commercial use of films or views, for purely educational, charitable,
fraternal or religious purposes, by any religious association, fraternal
society, library museum, public school, private school or institution of
learning. The Board may, in its discretion, without examination thereof,

 

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