MaRVIN MANDEL, Governor                        743

(1)    Offering Bribe, etc. Every person who shall, directly or
indirectly, by himself or by another, give or offer or promise to any
person any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument or
any valuable thing whatever, for the purpose of inducing or procur-
ing any person to vote, or refrain from voting, for or against any
person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any election
or political convention or for or against the election of any officer
by the General Assembly of Maryland.

(2)    Accepting or Soliciting Bribe, etc. Every person who shall,
directly or indirectly, receive, accept, request or solicit from any
person, candidate, committee, association, organization or corpora-
tion, any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or
any valuable thing whatsoever, for the purpose of inducing or pro-
curing any person to vote, or refrain from voting, for or against any
person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any election
or political convention.

(3)    Acting on Bribe, etc. Every person who, in consideration
of any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or any
valuable thing whatsoever, paid, received, accepted, or promised to
the advantage of himself or any other person, shall vote or refrain
from voting for or against any person, or for or against any measure
at any such election or political convention.

(4)    Making Contribution Other Than to Treasurer or Subtreas-
urer. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, pay, give, con-
tribute or promise any money or other valuable thing, to defray, or
towards defraying the costs or expenses of any campaign or
election, to any person, committee, company, organization or asso-
ciation, other than to a treasurer or a subtreasurer, but this sub-
section shall not apply to dues regularly paid for membership in any
political club if all money expended by such club or in connection
with the costs or expenses of any campaign or election shall be paid
out by it only through a treasurer or subtreasurer as provided in this
article, or for volunteered time or personal vehicles or personal
advertising or costs and expenses incident to the expression of per-
sonal advertising or costs and expenses incident to the expression of
personal views in accordance with the provisions of Section 26-9
(a) herein.

(5)    Political Contributions in False Name. Every person who
shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or through another person,
make a payment, or promise of payment, to a treasurer or sub-
treasurer, or candidate, in any other name than his own, and every
treasurer or subtreasurer or candidate who shall knowingly receive
a payment, or promise of payment, and enter the same or cause the
same to be entered in his accounts in any other name than that of
the person by whom such payment or promise of payment is made.

(6)    Coercing Employees. Every person who, being an em-
ployer, pays his employees the salary o