1872 ARTICLE 43

Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this
section, and any permittee hereunder who shall violate any of the con-
ditions of his permit or any of the rules or regulations adopted by the said
Maryland Board of Pharmacy in pursuance of the power hereby con-
ferred, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
fined not more than fifty ($50) dollars for each offense, and each and
every day such violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense; and, upon conviction of a permittee hereunder, his permit shall
also forthwith be revoked and become null and void.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to those operating
retail pharmacies or drug stores.

All permit fees collected under the provisions of this section shall be
used by the Maryland Board of Pharmacy, so far as may be necessary,
for the enforcement of the provisions of this sub-title.

1935, ch. 205, sec. 2.

260. If any provision of this sub-title, or the application thereof to
any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the sub-
title, and the application of such provision to other persons or circum-
stances, shall not be affected thereby.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 240. 1912, sec. 190. 1904, sec. 153. 1902, ch. 179, sec. 16.
1906, ch. 585, sec. 17. 1931, ch. 148, sec. 240.

261. Nothing in this sub-title shall be so construed as to prevent, or
in any way make unlawful, or interfere with, the sale or display by
general merchants, of any proprietary or patent medicines; or the sale by
such general merchants of commonly used household or domestic remedies,
in original, unopened packages, or farm remedies or ingredients for spray-
ing solutions, in bulk or otherwise, provided the said household or do-
mestic remedies are clearly labeled with the ordinary name of the article
or articles contained therein and the name of the manufacturer or distribu-
tor thereof, or the sale by such general merchants of doses of household or
domestic remedies to be consumed upon the premises.

1935, ch. 357.

262. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, distribute, vend or
otherwise dispose of any drug, medicine, or pharmaceutical or medicinal
preparation by means of any public exhibition, entertainment, perform-
ance, or carnival, commonly known as "medicine shows" and "patent
medicine shows"; and it shall be unlawful for any person to throw, cast,
deposit, drop, scatter, or leave, or cause to be thrown, cast, deposited,
dropped, scattered or left any package, parcel or sample of any drug
or medicine in or upon any house, porch, veranda, portico, or any other
part of any house or building or in or upon any lawn, yard or court
without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or upon any street
or public highway within this State.

Any person violating any provisions of this section shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not
exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars, and undergo imprisonment not
exceeding one (1) year, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court.¹

¹ Sec. 2, ch. 357, acts of 1935, reads as follows: If any provision of this act, or the
application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of
the act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall
not be affected thereby.