HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 139
CHAPTER 181.
(House Bill 189)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 569,
Sub-section "b", of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Washington Coun-
ty", sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables", sub-
heading "Juvenile Court", as amended by Chapter 526 of
the Acts of 1941, to provide for jail sentence in addition to
other penalties

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 569, Sub-section "b" of Article 22 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Washington County", sub-title "Justices of the Peace and
Constables", sub-heading " Juvenile Court", as amended by
Chapter 526 of the Acts of 1941, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

JUVENILE COURT.

569.

b. Any person contributing toward, encouraging, causing
or committing any act or omission tending to cause the delin-
quency, dependency or neglect of any child as hereinbefore de-
fined, or any person charged by law with the care and support
or maintenance of any such child and who wilfully fails, neg-
lects or refuses to care for, support or maintain such child or
abandons such child, or any person who shall advise, encourage
or cause by forcefully taking, inducing or otherwise, any child
to leave the person, home, school or institution to which such
child shall have been committed by said Magistrate, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction or pleading
guilty thereof, shall be fined not more than $500. 00 or
be confined in the County Jail for a term not exceeding ninety
days or in the Maryland House of Correction for a term not
exceeding two years or be both fined and imprisoned in the
discretion of the Magistrate or Court trying the offense, and
each day of such failure, neglect or refusal shall constitute a
separate offense; provided, however, that the accused may
demand a jury trial and be committed or bailed pending the
same. Any person pleading guilty, tried, convicted and
sentenced under this act for the abandonment of, or for the
neglect of, or failure to maintain or support a child, may be
sentenced as hereinbefore stated, or may, in lieu thereof, be
paroled on such terms as said Magistrate (or as the Circuit
Court for said County, if the case be before said Court) may
deem proper, the performance of said terms to be secured by
the detention of the offender or by a recognizance entered into