HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1935

the provisions of the foregoing sections herein declared to con-
stitute a felony shall be punished by imprisonment for a term
not less than one year nor more than five years, or by a fine
of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thou-
sand dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment.

284. COMMITMENT IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT OF FINE. In
default of the payment of any fines imposed for violations of
any of the provisions of this Article, the offender shall be com-
mitted to jail in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 of
Article 38 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition);
provided that any offender who shall have been found guilty of
the violation of any provision of this Article and made to pay
a fine or suffer imprisonment therefor, and who shall be con-
victed at any time thereafter of a second or additional offense
under the same provision, may for each second or additional
offense be fined in double the amount herein prescribed for the
first offense, or may be sentenced to imprisonment for the
period prescribed for the first offense.

This section is not to apply to those cases as to which penal-
ties in excess of the above have been specially provided f or. in
this Article.

285. DISPOSITION OF FINES AND OTHER RECEIPTS OF THE
DEPARTMENT, (a) All fines, penalties, and forfeitures of
bonds, or any kind of authorized security, imposed or collected
under any of the provisions of this Article shall be paid over
within five days after receipt thereof to the Department with a
statement accompanying the same, setting forth, the action or
proceedings in which such monies were collected, the name
and residence of the defendant, the nature of the offense, and
the fine, penalty, forfeiture or sentence, if any imposed.

(b) This section shall not be considered as repealed by the
passage hereafter of any law providing for a different disposi-
tion of fines and penalties in any county or other municipal
division of this State unless the same contains a repeal of this
section by express references thereto.

(e) The Department is hereby empowered in the name of,
the State of Maryland to take all steps necessary to enforce
the collection and prompt return of all such fines, penalties and
forfeitures of bonds.

(d) Any Justice of the Peace, Committing Magistrate, Trial
Magistrate or Police Justice accepting checks, drafts or any
other unsecured evidences of debt in payment of fines, or in
lieu of bail, shall do so at his own risk, provided that nothing
herein shall be taken to prohibit the release of offenders on
their own recognizance in proper cases.