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board of license commissioners for said city or any county deter-
mines that the granting of the license is not necessary for the accom-
modation of the public or that the applicant is not a fit person to
receive the license applied for, or has made a material false statement
in his application, or has practiced fraud in connection with said
application, or that the operation of the business, if the license is
granted, will unduly disturb the peace of the residents of the neigh-
borhood in which the place of business is to be located, or that there
are other reasons, in the discretion of the board, why the license
should not be issued, then the application shall be disapproved and
the license applied for shall be refused. If no such [finds] findings
are made by the board, then the application shall be approved and
the said board shall issue its certificate of approval for presentation
to the clerk of the court of the county in which the place of business
is to be located, or to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in
Baltimore City, as the case may be, and the said clerk shall issue
the license applied for upon presentation of said certificate, and the
payment of the fee required, except that, in Prince George's County,
such certificate of approval shall not be presented to nor payment
made to the clerk of the court, rather, if no such findings are
made by the board, then the application shall be approved and the
said board shall issue the license applied for, after payment of the
required fee to the treasurer of Prince George's County, provided
that said board shall maintain a record of licenses issued.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved March 22, 1968.

CHAPTER 7
(Senate Bill 58)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 638A (a)
of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punish-
ments," subtitle "Sentence and Punishment," amending the penal
laws in order to correct an erroneous reference therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 638A (a) of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement), title
"Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Sentence and Punishment,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

638A.

(a) When from all the circumstances the court is of the opinion
that any accused person in a criminal case will appear as required
for trial either before or after his conviction, the person may be
released on his own recognizance. A failure to appear as required
by such recognizance shall be subject to the penalty provided in
Section [12A] 12B of this article.