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peace] court, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars, and any certificate or license issued upon a false or misleading
affidavit or application shall be void ab initio; and any change or
alteration in a film after license, except the elimination of a part or
except upon written direction of the Board, shall be a violation of
this article and shall also make immediately void the license therefor.

§ 19. Review and approval or disapproval of film by Board; ju-
dicial determination; appeal; sale, exhibition, etc., of film
without approval and license.

(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 convic-
tion summarily before a [magistrate or the Municipal Court of Balti-
more City] court, 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]
court. Except, no employee of any individual, partnership, firm as-
sociation, 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.

§ 20. Penalties in general.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article for
which a specific penalty is not provided and is convicted thereof sum-
marily before any [magistrate or justice of the peace] court, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor
more than fifty dollars, for the first offense. For any subsequent of-
fense the fine shall be not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars. [In default of payment of a fine and costs, the de-
fendant shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the prison of the
county, or in Baltimore City, where such offense was committed, for
not less than ten days, and not more than thirty days. All fines shall
be paid by the magistrate or justice of the peace to the Board, and by
it paid into the State treasury.] All fines and costs shall be paid
in accordance with Article 38, § 4.

§ 21. Particular penalties; appeal.

Any person who shall exhibit in public any misbranded film or film
carrying official approval of the Board which approval was not put
there by the action of the Board or any person who shall attach to or
use in connection with any film or view which has not been approved
and licensed by the Maryland State Board of Censors, any certificate
or statement in the form provided by § 7 hereof or any similar cer-
tificate, statement or writing, or any person who shall exhibit any
folder, poster, picture or other advertising matter, which folder, pos-
ter, picture or other advertising matter is obscene, indecent, sacri-
legious, inhuman or immoral, or which tends to unduly excite or de-
ceive the public, or containing any matter not therein contained
when the approval was granted by the Board, shall be guilty of a