J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               293

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 123 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Drunken-
ness and Disorderly Conduct", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

123.

Every person who shall be found drunk, or acting in a disorderly
manner to the disturbance of the public peace, upon any public street
or highway, in any city, town or county in this State, or at any
place of public worship or public resort or amusement in any city,
town or county of this State, or in any store during business hours,
or in any elevator, lobby or corridor of any office building or apart-
ment house having more than three separate dwelling units in any
city, town or county of this State, and any person who drinks, or
has in his possession, any intoxicating beverages while in attend-
ance as a spectator or otherwise, at any place where an interscholastic
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOOL SCHOOL OR
HIGH SCHOOL athletic contest is taking place, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a
fine of not more than fifty dollars, or be confined in jail for a period of
not more than sixty days or be both fined and imprisoned in the
discretion of the court. Habitual offenders may be fined not more
than one hundred dollars or committed to jail or the Maryland
House of Correction for not more than six months. An habitual
offender is a person who shall have been convicted under the pro-
visions of this section five (5) times in the preceding twelve (12)
months. The trial magistrates of the respective counties of this
State shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the
circuit court for their respective counties; and police magistrates
selected to sit at the respective station houses in the City of Balti-
more shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the
Criminal Court of Baltimore City.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect

June 1, 1961.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS
ACT IS HEREBY DECLARED TO BE AN EMERGENCY MEAS-
URE AND NECESSARY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRESERVA-
TION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY, AND HAV-
ING BEEN PASSED BY A YEA AND NAY VOTE SUPPORTED
BY THREE-FIFTHS 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 28, 1961.

CHAPTER 243
(House Bill 385)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Wicomico County to levy the sum of Twenty-Two Thou-