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26-19. Witnesses and costs in court proceeding.

The courts in which a proceeding under Section 26-18 of this
article shall be filed shall have authority to tax the costs as in equity
cases, and also to subpoena witnesses and require them to testify as
in other civil cases, and to compel by subpoena duces tecum the pro-
duction for examination of any books or papers of any kind, or of
any other thing which may be required or desirable in the conduct of
such inquiry. In any proceeding held under the provisions of Section
26-18, no witness shall be excused from answering any question or
producing any book, paper or other thing on the ground or claim that
his answer or the thing produced, or to be produced by him, may
tend to incriminate or degrade him, or render him liable to a penalty,
but his answer, or the thing produced by him shall not be used in any
proceeding against him, except in a prosecution for perjury in so
testifying.

26-20. PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS

ANY PERSON WHO SHALL VIOLATE ANY OF THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBTITLE SHALL BE GUILTY OF
A MISDEMEANOR, AND UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE
FINED NOT MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($1,000), OR BE IMPRISONED FOR NOT MORE THAT THAN
ONE YEAR, OR BOTH, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT
UNLESS A DIFFERENT PENALTY IS SPECIFICALLY PRE-
SCRIBED FOR VIOLATION OF ANY SECTION EXPRESSLY
SET FORTH IN THIS ARTICLE, IN WHICH EVENT THE
SPECIFIC PENALTY PROVIDED FOR THIS VIOLATION
SHALL BE APPLICABLE AND THE PENALTY SET FORTH
IN SUCH THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any provision of this
Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held
invalid for any reason, such invalidity shall not affect the other pro-
visions or any other application of this Act which can be given effect
without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, all the
provisions of this Act are hereby declared to be severable.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws,
public general or public local, inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act are hereby repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 614
(House Bill 7)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 24-26 (a)
of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Supple-
ment), title "Election Code," subtitle "Offenses and Penalties," to