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ARTICLE 32A.

ments, membership certificates and trustees certificates, or other securities
within the State of Maryland, any person, partnership or corporation is
employing or is about to employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud,
or for obtaining money or property by means of any false or fraudulent
pretense, representation or promise, issue and cause to be served upon
such person, partnership or corporation an order requiring the party
guilty thereof to cease and desist therefrom. If it shall appear to the
Attorney General that an irreparable, public injury is imminent, unless
such order is issued before a full investigation, can be made pending such
investigation, he may issue such order, but the same shall be accompanied
with a request for information as to the facts relied on in issuing the
order and such temporary order shall only remain in force until such
information is furnished and two days thereafter. Orders of the Attorney
General under this section may be served by any one duly authorized by
the Attorney General either (a) by delivering a copy thereof to the person
to be served; or to a member of the partnership to be served, or to the
president, vice-president, secretary or other executive officer or director
of the corporation to be served; or (b) by leaving a copy thereof at the
principal office or place of business of such person, partnership or corpora-
tion; or (c) by registering and mailing a copy thereof, addressed to such
person, partnership or corporation at his or its principal office or place
of business. A verified return by the person so serving said order, setting
forth the manner of said service, shall be prima facie proof of the same,
and the return post office receipt for said order registered and mailed as
aforesaid shall be prima facie proof of the service of the same, as aforesaid.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1920, ch 552, sec. 14. 1931, ch. 271, sec. 14
14. Any person, partnership or corporation having been served with
any order of the Attorney General under Section 12 of this Article, or
having knowledge of the issuance of said order and while said order re-
mains in effect, either as originally issued or as modified, who or which
shall execute or carry on in any manner any scheme or device against
which said order has been issued, or wilfully attempts so to do, or shall
sell or deliver or receive payment in money or property for any paper,
certificate or instrument purporting to be or represent any interest in or
order for stocks, bonds, notes, shares, profit sharing agreements, service
agreements, membership certificates and trustees certificates, or other
securities mentioned in said order of the Attorney General, or shall pub-
lish or cause to be published any advertisement of any such stocks, bonds,
notes, shares, profit sharing agreements, service agreements, member-
ship certificates and trustees certificates, or other securities pursuant to
said scheme or device against which said order has been issued, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more
than ten thousand dollars ($10, 000) or imprisoned not more than two
years, or be subject to both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court.

Secs 11-14 not repugnant to art. 27, sec. 170. State v. Coblentz, 167 Md. 528.