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Section 325A thereof, to regulate the days on which barber shops
may be open for business in Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland.
That new Section 325B be and it is hereby added to Article 43 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Supplement), title "Health,"
subtitle "State Board of Barber Examiners," to follow immediately
after Section 325A thereof, and to read as follows:

325B.

(a) In Montgomery and Prince George's Counties barber shops
shall be permitted to be open for business not more than six (6)
days in any calendar week and only during the hours designated
by the Board of Barber Examiners.

(b) Within thirty (30) days after July 1, 1970, the Board shall

submit to each licensed barber operating in Montgomery or Prince
George's Counties a questionnaire to ascertain in writing his prof-

erence as to (1) the one day in seven (7) on which such establish-

ments shall be closed; and (2) the hours when such establishments

shall be opened and closed. Such questionnaire shall be returned to
the Board not later than the tenth day, whereupon the Board, after

examination of all such questionnaires, shall within twenty (20)

days thereafter, designate as the one day in seven on which such

establishments shall be closed that day which is shown by the ques-

tionnaires to be the preference of a majority of the licensed and oper-
ating barbers of the Prince George's and Montgomery Counties, but
nothing herein contained shall prevent any owner, operator, em-

ployee, or agent of said owner from opening and operating his

establishments on the day voted by the majority to close upon a

showing made to the Board that the designated closing day conflicts

with the tenets of his religion, but his establishment shall be closed

on the Sabbath of his particular religion. The same procedure shall

be followed and the Board shall make its determination in the

same manner as to the hours when such establishments shall be

opened and closed. The order of the Barber Board shall become

effective thirty (30) days after determination, and public notice

of the action posted in the offices of the Board and in every

establishment affected thereby.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 22, 1970

CHAPTER 373
(House Bill 1149)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 172(a)
of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Alcoholic Beverages," subtitle "Dorchester