1330 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 703

SEC. 62B. Any person who shall operate, or cause to be
operated, or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause
to be operated any automatic vending machine, slot machine,
coin box telephone or other receptacle, designed to receive law-
ful coin of the United States of America in connection with
the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, by means of a
slug or any false, counterfeited, mutilated, sweated or foreign
coin, or by any means, method, trick or device whatsoever not
lawfully authorized by the owner, lessee or licensee of such
machine, coin box telephone or receptacle; or who shall take,
obtain or receive from or in connection with any automatic
vending machine, slot machine, coin box telephone or other
receptacle designed to receive coin of the United States of
America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of
property or service, any goods, wares, merchandise, gas, elec-
tric current, article of value, or the use or enjoyment of any
telephone or telegraph facilities or service, or of any musical
instrument, phonograph or other property, without depositing
in and surrendering to such machine, coin box telephone or
receptacle lawful coin of the United States of America to the
amount required therefor by the owner, lessee or licensee of
such machine, coin box telephone or receptacle shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before any
court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding $500.00, or by imprisonment not to exceed three
months, or both, in the discretion of the Court.

SEC. 62C. Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud
the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the con-
tents of any automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin
box telephone or other receptacle, depository or contrivance
designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America
in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or
service, or who, knowing that the same is intended for unlaw-
ful use, shall manufacture for sale, or sell or give away any
slug, device or substance whatsoever intended or calculated to
be placed or deposited in any such automatic vending machine,
slot machine, coin box telephone, or other such receptacle,
depository or contrivance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent
jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00,
or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or both in
the discretion of the Court.