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have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the circuit courts
for their respective counties; and any]. Any fine shall be paid pur-
suant to the provisions of Article 38 § 4. Any person who shall commit
any of the crimes, offenses or misdemeanors as defined by this section
may be arrested, tried and convicted as herein provided, in any county
or city in this State, where said public place may be located, or in any
county or city in this State, from, to or through which the said
streetcar, electric car, railroad car, passenger train, or other public
conveyance may run, or into which he may be brought by said car
or other public conveyance; or in any county or city in the State in
which he may be found after said crimes, offenses or misdemeanors
have been committed. And any person who shall commit any of the
crimes, misdemeanors or offenses herein mentioned upon any steam-
boat, upon the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, within the limits of this
State, and without the body of any county thereof, may be tried in
any court [or before any justice of the peace] of this State having
jurisdiction of similar crimes, offenses and misdemeanors of the coun-
ty in which he may be arrested or into which he may be first brought.
§ 123.
(e) A person who shall have been convicted or have forfeited col-
lateral under the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this section
three (3) times in the preceding twelve (12) months shall be deemed
an habitual offender and may be committed by the court to an appro-
priate alcoholism treatment facility for a period of not more than
sixty (60) days. [The trial magistrates and the judges of the people's
courts of the respective counties of this State and the Municipal
Court of Baltimore City shall have concurrent jurisdiction of such
offense with the circuit court of their respective counties.] Any mem-
ber of a city, town, or county or State Police force may, in lieu of
incarcerating an intoxicated person for violation of subsections (a)
or (b) of this section, take or send the intoxicated person to his home
or to a public or private health facility; provided, that the law en-
forcement officer may take reasonable measures to ascertain the com-
mercial transportation used for such purposes is paid for by such
person in advance. Any law enforcement officers so acting shall be
considered as carrying out their official duty.
§ 124. Disorderly conduct on land of another.
Any person who shall enter upon the land or premises of any other
person, whether such person be the owner or lessee of said land or
premises and wilfully act in a disorderly manner by making loud and
unseemly noises, or by profanely cursing or swearing or using obscene
language or acting in any other disorderly manner while thereon, shall
upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than
one dollar and not more than twenty-five dollars, and the costs of the
prosecution; [and the several justices of the peace of this State shall
have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the circuit courts
for their respective counties;] and when said fine and costs are not
paid, the parties so convicted may [shall] be committed to the county
jail [for a term not exceeding thirty days or until discharged in
due course of law] pursuant to the provisions of article 38, § 4;
provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall only apply
to Allegany County, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County,
Frederick County, Harford County, Howard County, Montgomery
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