SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       579

obligation for services, or for materials or labor in the construction
or repair of any building or buildings, wares or anything of value, of
[one] five hundred dollars or more, by means of a check, draft
or any other negotiable instrument of any kind drawn, whether by
such person or by any other person, persons, firm or corporation,
upon any bank, person, firm, or corporation not indebted to drawer,
or where the drawer or drawers thereof, shall not have provided for
the payment or acceptance, or by means of a credit card or purported
credit authorization which he is not authorized to present and use for
such purpose, and the same be not paid upon presentation, shall be
deemed to have obtained such money, credit, goods, services, release,
wares, or things of value by means of a false pretense, and upon
conviction, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, as provided in Section
140 of this article, at the discretion of the court. Where the value of
such money, credit, goods, services, release, wares, or anything of
value is less than one FIVE hundred dollars, such person, upon
conviction, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not
more than [fifty] five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more
than eighteen months in the house of correction or jail, or both fined
and imprisoned in the discretion of the court and the trial magis-
trates and judges of the courts of limited jurisdiction acting with
the authority heretofore vested in the trial magistrates of the
counties shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the
circuit courts of the counties. The giving of the aforesaid worthless
check, draft or negotiable instrument, or of the credit card or pur-
ported credit authorization, shall be prima facie evidence of intent
to cheat or defraud; provided that if such person shall be a bona fide
resident of the State of Maryland and shall deposit with the drawee
of such paper or the acceptor of the credit card or purported credit
authorization within ten days thereafter funds sufficient to meet the
same, with all costs and interest which may have accrued he shall
not be prosecuted under this section, and no prosecution either by
presentment, indictment or otherwise, shall be instituted or com-
menced until after the expiration of said period of ten days.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not apply
to offenses committed prior to its effective date.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 14, 1967.

CHAPTER 249
(House Bill 439)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 658(a)
of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Health," subtitle "Sanitary Districts," pro-
viding that in taxation for retirement of sanitary district sewage
system bonds the tax will be imposed upon personal property at
the discretion of the sanitary district commission.