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The provisions of this subtitle are sever able and if any provision,
sentence, clause, section or part thereof is held illegal, invalid or
unconstitutional or inapplicable to any person or circumstance, such
illegality, invalidity, unconstitutionally or inapplicability shall not
affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses,
sections or parts of the ordinance or their application to other per-
sons or circumstances. It is hereby declared to be the legislative
intent that this subtitle would have been adopted if such illegal,
invalid, or unconstitutional provision, sentence, clause, section or
part had not been included therein, and if the person or circum-
stances to which the ordinance or any part thereof is inapplicable
had been specifically exempted therefrom.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 386
(Senate Bill 173)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 11 of
Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume and 1966 Supplement), title "Interracial Commis-
sion", subtitle "Discrimination in Public Places", redefining and
broadening the definition of the term place of public accommoda-
tion to bring it into conformity with the Federal Public Accom-
modations Laws.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 11 of Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume and 1966 Supplement), title "Interracial
Commission", subtitle "Discrimination in Public Places", be and is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

11.
lt is unlawful for an owner or operator of a place of public accom-
modation or an agent or employee of said owner or operator, because
of the race, creed, color, or national origin of any person, to refuse,
withhold from, or deny to such person any of the accommodations,
advantages, facilities and privileges of such place of public accom-
modation. Nothing in this section shall be construed or interpreted
to prohibit the proprietor of any establishment, or the employees
thereof, from the right to deny service to any person for failure
to conform to the usual and regular requirements, standards and
regulations for the establishment so long as the denial is not based
upon discrimination on the grounds of race, color, creed, or national
origin. For the purpose of this subtitle, a place of public accommo-
dation means; [any hotel, restaurant, inn, motel or an establishment
commonly known or recognized as regularly engaged in the business
of providing sleeping accommodations, or serving food, or both, for