1060 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 504

contract made with it or the enforceability of any such
contract.

(b) Every officer of any such foreign corporation which
does intrastate business or interstate or foreign business in
this State without qualifying to do such intrastate business
or registering to do such interstate or foreign business, as the
case may be, and every agent of any such foreign corporation
who transacts intrastate business or interstate or foreign busi-
ness for such foreign corporation in this State shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine of not exceeding one
thousand dollars.

(c) No suit shall be maintained in any court of this State
by any such foreign corporation or by anyone claiming un-
der such foreign corporation if such foreign corporation is
doing or has done intrastate or interstate or foreign business
in this State without having complied with the requirements
of Section 119 of this Article, until

(1) such foreign corporation or the person claiming un-
der it shall have proved to the satisfaction of the court

(A) that such foreign corporation, or a foreign corpora-
tion successor thereto, has complied with the requirements of
Section 119 of this Article, or

(B) that neither such foreign corporation nor any for-
eign corporation successor thereto is continuing to do intra-
state or interstate or foreign business in this State, and

(2) such foreign corporation or the person claiming un-
der it shall have paid to the clerk of the court in which such
suit was instituted a penalty of two hundred dollars. Upon
receipt of such penalty of two hundred dollars, the clerk of
such court shall pay one hundred and fifty dollars thereof
to the State Treasurer for the use of the State and fifty dollars
thereof to the defendant.

(d) If any foreign corporation required by Section 119 of
this Article to qualify to do intrastate business in this State
does such business in this State without qualifying to do such
business, or if any foreign corporation required by said sec-
tion to register to do interstate or foreign business in this
State does such business in this State without registering to
do such business, the State Tax Commission shall impose upon
it a penalty of not exceeding two hundred dollars. Such pen-
alties shall be collected and may be reduced or abated in the
manner provided for the collection, reduction and abatement
of penalties imposed by Section 179 of Article 81 for failure
to file reports with the State Tax Commission.

122. No foreign corporation required by Section 119 of this
Article to qualify to do intrastate business in this State or
to register to do interstate or foreign business in this State,