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ART. 27] FRAUD——ITINERANT VENDORS. 831
1892, ch. 596, sec. 10.
165. Whoever neglects or refuses to file the statement
required by section 154, or whoever makes a false or fraudu-
lent representation therein, shall be punished by a fine of not
less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each and every day that such goods, wares and merchandise
are kept or exposed for sale.
Ibid. sec. 11.
156. Whenever a person liable therefor, and after demand
made by the officer or clerk whose duty it is to collect said
license fees of the city or county in which he is located, refuses
or neglects to pay the license fee provided for in this sub-title,
the said clerk or officer may, in his own name, but for the use
and benefit of such city or county, maintain an action therefor
in like manner as for his own debt. Station houses justices of
the peace in Baltimore city and justices of the peace in the
counties shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit
courts in the counties and the criminal court of Baltimore of
such actions and of complaints under section 149.
Ibid. sec. 12.
167. No itinerant vendor shall advertise, represent or hold
forth any sale as an insurance, bankrupt, insolvent, assignee,
trustee, testator, executor, administrator, receiver, wholesale or
manufacturer's or closing out sale, or as a sale of any goods
damaged by smoke, fire, water or otherwise, or in any similar
form, unless he shall before so doing state under oath, either
in the original application for a State license or in a supple-
mentary application subsequently filed, and copy on the license
all the facts relating to the reasons and character of such
special sale so advertised or represented, including a statement
of the names of the persons from whom the goods, wares and
merchandise were obtained, the date of delivery to the person
applying for the license and the place from which said goods,
wares and merchandise were last taken, and all details neces-
sary to exactly locate and fully identify all goods, wares and
merchandise to be so sold.
Ibid sec. 13.
158. Any false statement in an application, either original
or supplementary, for a license, and any failure on the part of
any licensee to comply with all the requirements of the last
preceding section shall subject said itinerant vendor to the
same penalty as if he had no license.
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