874                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 514

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 11 (a) of Article 100 of Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume and 1965 Supplement), title "Work,
Labor, and Employment," subtitle "Employment of Minors," be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

11.

(a) No male minor under 16 years of age and no female minor
under 18 years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to
work in, about, or in connection with any theatre, concert hall,
cabaret, carnival, rodeo, floor show, poolroom, billiard parlor or
bowling alley, except in purely office work outside school hours,
provided, however, that a male or female minor who has passed
his or her 16th birthday may be employed in a theatre devoted
exclusively to the showing of motion pictures and in theatres de-
voted exclusively to the presentation by amateur, summer stock or
professional groups of drama, musical comedy, opera, light opera
and musical concerts, and further provided that nothing in this
section shall prevent or be construed to prohibit the employment of
a male minor under 16 years of age or a female minor under 18
years of age, whether the minor is a resident or nonresident of the
State, if the minor be regularly employed by a regular theatrical
company or radio or television broadcasting station in the profes-
sional presentation of a drama, play, performance, concert or enter-
tainment, and provided the management of the theatre, concert hall
or radio or television broadcasting station where such performance
is to be held in the State shall secure a permit from the Commis-
sioner of the Department of Labor and industry. No permit shall
be issued unless the officer authorized to issue permits shall have
the written consent of parent or legal guardian of the minor and
is satisfied that the environment in which the drama, play, per-
formance, concert or entertainment is to be produced is a proper
environment for the minor and that the conditions of such employ-
ment are not detrimental to the health or morals of such minor
and that the minor's education will not be neglected or hampered
by participation in such drama, play, performance, concert or enter-
tainment and further provided that the minor shall not participate
in any performance after 11 p.m.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved May 6, 1966.

CHAPTER 514
(Senate Bill 218)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 222A (d)
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Charles County (1964 Supple-
ment, being Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land), title "Charles County", subtitle "Parks and Recreation", as
last amended by Chapter 664 of the Acts of 1965: and to add new
Section 222B to the said Code and subtitle, to follow immediately