ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 1285

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be added to Article 27 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Crimes and Punishments, "
sub-title "Fraud—Advertisement, " to be known as Section

185A.

185A. Any hotel, inn, or restaurant keeper, or any person,
firm or corporation, carrying on and conducting a boarding-
house, eating house, lunch room business, or engaged in the
catering business, who shall with intent to defraud, sell, pre-
pare or expose for sale, any food or food preparation, whether
the same is to be consumed on the premises where prepared and
sold, or whether same is taken or carried elsewhere for con-
sumption, falsely represents such food or food preparation to
be kosher, that is, that same is prepared under and of products
sanctioned by the Orthodox Hebrew Religious rules and re-
quirements; or who shall falsely represent that such food or
food preparation is, or will be prepared and served in accord-
ance with such Orthodox Hebrew Religious rules and require-
ments, by displaying a sign or signs, in, on, or about his, her
or their place of business or establishment, or by advertisement
in any newspaper, magazine, or periodical, or by publication
in any other manner whatsoever, the intent and purpose where-
of shall be to represent to the public by such advertisement, or
any other manner whatsoever, that kosher foods are prepared
and sold in such place of business or establishment, or served
therein, or prepared and sold to be taken for consumption else-
where than on said premises; or who prepares, sells, serves, or
prepares for sale, either to be consumed on the premises, or
elsewhere, both kosher and non-kosher food or food preparations
in the same place of business, who fails to keep separate kitch-
ens and dining rooms, wherein such food is prepared and
served; or who fails to keep and use separate and distinctly
labeled or marked dishes and utensils wherein such food is pre-
pared and served; or who shall fail to indicate on all signs and
display advertising, in, on or about his, her or their premises,
in block letters, at least four inches in height, "Kosher and
non-kosher food prepared and sold here, " as the case may be,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not
less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, or by imprisonment of not less than thirty days nor more
than one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

Approved April 11, 1929.