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cantile establishment, or any plant of any kind, or any mine,
colliery or quarry, or any electric railway, steam railway,
water, sewage, gas, electric light, power, transmission, heating,
refrigerating, telephone or other publicly owned or public
service property in this State, in which or upon which any
person is required to have a special identification card or
identification badge issued by the owners and operators thereof
before entering therein or thereon as an employee or visitor,
upon the termination of his or her employment or the time
limits of an authorized visit, shall surrender the same to the
issuer thereof, and it shall be unlawful for any such person
to have such identification card or identification badge in his
or her possession after the termination of such employment
or the expiration of the time limits of an authorized visit.

(3) Any person finding or in any other way coming into the
possession of an identification card or identification badge, as
defined in this section, shall immediately surrender the same
to the nearest State, County or City police station.

(4) No person shall wrongfully use any such identification
badge or identification card or aid or assist another in wrong-
fully using the same to enter any place or establishment in
which or upon which any person is required to have a special
identification card or identification badge.

(5) Any person who wilfully violates any of the provisions
of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and be punished by imprisonment of not more
than ten days or a fine of not more than f50, or both.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and, being
passed upon by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved March 12, 1943.

CHAPTER 154.
(Senate Bill 40)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Crimes and Punish-
ments77, to be under sub-title "Appropriating Property by