1362                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 686

operation and effect of some of the Sunday laws; to limit work
and labor and regulate business on Sundays; to provide injunctive
relief and penalties for violations, and matters generally related
thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 492 and 522 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement), title
"Sabbath Breaking," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments thereto, and to enact new Sections 521(g), 534G
and 534H of said Article and Title, to follow immediately after Sec-
tions 521 (f) and 534F respectively, and all to read as follows:

492.

No person whatsoever shall work or do any bodily labor on the
Lord's day, commonly called Sunday; and no person having children
or servants shall command, or wittingly or willingly suffer any of
them to do any manner of work or labor on the Lord's day (works
of necessity and charity always excepted), nor shall suffer or permit
any children or servants to profane the Lord's day by gaming, fishing,
fowling, hunting or unlawful pastime or recreation; and every person
transgressing this section and being hereof convicted before a justice
of the peace shall forfeit five dollars, to be applied to the use of the
county. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the provisions of
this section shall not apply to Baltimore County.

522.

It shall not be lawful to keep open or use any dancing saloon, opera
house, tenpin alley, barber saloon or ball alley within this State on
the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday; and any person or persons,
or body politic or corporate, who shall violate any provision of this
section, or cause or knowingly permit the same to be violated by a
person or persons in his, her or its employ shall be liable to indict-
ment in any court of this State having criminal jurisdiction, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court,
for the first offense; and if convicted a second time for a violation of
this section, the person or persons, or body politic or corporate shall
be fined a sum not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred
dollars; and if a natural person shall be imprisoned, not less than
ten nor more than thirty days in the discretion of the court; and in
the case of any conviction or convictions under this section subse-
quent to the second, such person or persons, body politic or corporate
shall be fined on each occasion a sum at least double that imposed
upon him, her, them or it on the last preceding conviction; and if a
natural person, shall be imprisoned not less than thirty nor more
than sixty days in the discretion of the court; all fines to be imposed
under this section shall be paid to the State. Notwithstanding any-
thing to the contrary, the provisions of this section shall not apply
to Baltimore County.

521.

(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the provisions
of this section shall not apply to Baltimore County.