MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                          691

policy it may issue arising from such conversion prior to receipt at
its home office of notice of such assignment.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.

CHAPTER 233
(Senate Bill 423)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 19 (b) of
Article 66A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Moving Pictures," to exempt employees
of theaters from prosecution for exhibiting unlicensed motion
pictures.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 19 (b) of Article 66A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Moving Pictures," be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

19.

(b) Any person who shall sell, lease, lend, exhibit or use any film
in this State without having first secured approval thereof and a
license therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in sub-
section (a) above, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction summarily before a magistrate or the Municipal Court of
Baltimore City, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than fifty
($50.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or
to imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or to be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the magistrate or judge.
Except, no employee of any individual, partnership, firm, association,
corporation, or other legal entity operating a theater which shows
motion pictures, shall be subject to prosecution under this section if
the employee is not an officer thereof and has no financial interest
therein other than receiving salary and wages.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.

CHAPTER 234
(Senate Bill 430)

AN ACT to repeal Section 404 (b) of Article 41 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1968 Supplement), title "Governor—Executive