970                              Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 616

or out of such steamboat wharves, docks, public waiting rooms, rail-
road stations, streetcars, electric cars, railroad cars, passenger trains
or other public conveyance, shall upon conviction thereof, be sen-
tenced to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty
dollars and costs, and when such fine and costs are not paid, the
party shall be committed for not less than seven days or more than
sixty days to the city or county jail, such party to be released at
any time before the term of his imprisonment expires upon the
payment of his fine and costs. The justices of the peace for the
respective counties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction
over such offense with the circuit courts for their respective coun-
ties [, and justices of the peace selected to sit at the respective
station houses in the City of Baltimore shall have concurrent juris-
diction over such offense with the Criminal Court of Baltimore];
and any person who shall commit any of the crimes, offenses or
misdemeanors as defined by this section may be arrested, tried and
convicted, as herein provided, in any county or city in this State,
from, to or through which the said streetcar, electric car, railroad
car, passenger train, or other public conveyance may run, or into
which he may be brought by said car or other public conveyance;
or in any county or city in the State in which he may be found after
said crimes, offenses or misdemeanors have been committed. And
any person who shall commit any of the crimes, misdemeanors or
offenses herein mentioned upon any steamboat, upon the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay, within the limits of this State, and without the
body of any county thereof, may be tried in any court or before
any justice of the peace of this State having jurisdiction of similar
crimes, offenses and misdemeanors of the county in which he may
be arrested or into which he may be first brought.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title, "Crimes and Punishments",
Section 123, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

§ 123. Drunkenness and disorderly conduct generally; habitual
offenders.

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, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor; 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 dis-
cretion 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 provisions of this
section five (5) times in the preceding twelve (12) months. The trial
magistrates of the respective counties of this State shall have con-
current jurisdiction over such offense with the circuit court for their
respective counties [; and police magistrates selected to sit at the