718                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 426

The application to the Sheriff for the issuance of said license shall
contain a certification by one of the principal officers of the organ-
izations stating the following:

(a)  The time and place of the activities for which the license is
sought.

(b)   That the activities for which the license is sought will be
solely and personally conducted, managed, und operated by the
regular members of the organization without the assistance of
professionals.

(c)   That no cash prizes GREATER THAN $5.00 are to be offered.

(d)   That the applicant, by one of its principal officers will,
within fifteen (15) days after the last day named in the applica-
tion for the conducting of the licensed activities, file a report under
penalties of perjury certifying the following facts:

(1)  That the authorized activities were conducted at the time and
place stated in the application by the regular members of the
organization personally without the assistance of professionals.

(2)   That no cash prizes GREATER THAN $5.00 were offered.
(S) The disposition of the cash proceeds of the licensed activities.

The Sheriff shall charge a license fee of one dollar ($1.00) for
the issuance of each bingo license and a license fee of five ($5.00)
for each carnival and raffle license; and he shall issue to a single
organization no more than twenty-five licenses for bingo games, four
licenses for raffles, or two licenses for carnivals in a calendar year.
A license shall be required for each day a bingo game is operated*
, UNLESS SUCH BINGO GAME IS HELD IN A DULY LICENSED
CARNIVAL.

Any organization refusing to file the report set forth in sub-
paragraph (d) hereunder shall forfeit its right to the issuance of
said license for a period of one year.

Nothing herein shall be construed to 'authorize slot machines or
any type of coin machines to be used for gambling purposes.

THE SEVERAL CONSTABLES, BAILIFFS, MUNICIPAL
POLICE OFFICERS AND ALL OTHER PROSECUTING AND
PEACE OFFICERS OF HARFORD COUNTY SHALL BE
STRICTLY CHARGED WITH THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS
SECTION.

Section 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby-
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of
Maryland.

Approved April 18, 1955.