J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1379

CHAPTER 809
(Senate Bill 421)

AN ACT to add new Section 20A to Article 56 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Pinball
Machines and Console Machines", to follow immediately after
Section 20 thereof providing for the licensing and regulation of
pinball and console machines AND CERTAIN OTHER MA-
CHINES AND DEVICES, INCLUDING CERTAIN ARCADES,
in Worcester County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That new Section 20A be and it is hereby added to Article 56 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-
title "Pinball Machines and Console Machines", to follow immediately
after Section 20 thereof and to read as follows:

20A.

(a)  The Board of County Commissioners of Worcester County is
hereby authorized to declare that the operation of "free play pinball
machines" (as defined in Section 19 of this Article) and of "free
play console machines" (as defined in the aforesaid Section 19) is
legal. Said Board is also authorized to provide for the licensing of
each person, firm or corporation maintaining, operating and/or
conducting said machines in Worcester County and to establish
annual license fees therefor. Provided, however, that the license fee
for each machine shall, in no event, be less than $25.00 nor more than
$100.00, and to prescribe regulations for the issuance of such licenses.
The money collected from said licenses shall go to the general funds
of the county. Any person, firm or corporation keeping, maintaining,
possessing and/or operating any of the aforesaid machines without
a license obtained from said Board, or of violating any regulation to
be hereafter adopted by said Board for the issuance of such license
and/or the maintenance and operation of any machine licensed here-
under shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
be fined not less than $25 nor more than $1,000.

(b)  The provisions of this Section shall also apply to the licensing
of any claw machine, shuffleboard, mechanical bowling game, , SIN-
GLE COIN PINBALL MACHINE, or any similar device for public
amusement whose operation required the insertion of a coin or token,
and the result of whose operation depends in whole or part upon the
skill of the operator. THE LICENSE FEE FOR EACH SUCH
MACHINE OR DEVICE SHALL NOT, IN ANY EVENT, BE LESS
THAN $10 NOR MORE THAN $50, AS MAY BE ESTABLISHED
FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMIS-
SIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY.

(C) ANY ARCADE IN OCEAN CITY HAVING FIFTY OR
MORE OF SUCH MACHINES OR OTHER DEVICES ON THE
PREMISES MAY SECURE AN ARCADE LICENSE, AS IN THIS
SUB-SECTION PROVIDED. IF THERE ARE FROM FIFTY TO

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.