Ch. 61                               MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                   113

369 A.

(b) No retail establishment regulated or licensed pursuant to the provisions
contained in Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, shall use
any game, contests, lottery or other scheme or device, whereby a person or persons
may receive gifts, prizes or gratuities as determined by chance for the purpose of
promoting, furthering or advertising the sale of any product or service of
whatsoever nature or kind, and the fact that no purchase is required in order to
participate in the game, contest, lottery or scheme shall not exclude such game,
contest, lottery or scheme from the provisions of this section. Nothing in this
section shall be construed as preventing any nonfranchise retail merchant in
DORCHESTER, WORCESTER, WICOMICO, Frederick and Carroll counties
from giving away any prize or prizes by the act of drawing of a name or names if
no purchase or contest is required to qualify for the prize or prizes.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 26, 1973.

CHAPTER 61
(Senate Bill 192)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 36B(c) of Article 27 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Supplement), title "Crimes and
Punishments," subtitle "Crimes and Punishments," subheading "Handguns," to
provide that a bona fide gun collector may move any part or all of his gun
collection from place to place for public or private exhibition [[or related
purposes]], without being subject to penalties.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 36B(c) of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Crimes
and Punishments," subheading "Handguns," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

36B.

(c)(1) Nothing in this section shall prevent the wearing, carrying, or transporting
of a handgun by (i) law-enforcement personnel of the United States, or of this
State, or of any county or city of this State, (ii) members of the armed forces of
the United States or of the National Guard while on duty or traveling to or from
duty; or (iii) law-enforcement personnel of some other state or subdivision thereof
temporarily in this State on official business; (iv) any jailer, prison guard, warden,
or guard or keeper at any penal, correctional or detention institution in this State;
or (v) sheriffs and temporary or full-time sheriffs' deputies, as to all of whom this
exception shall apply only when they are on active assignment engaged in law
enforcement; provided, that any such person mentioned in this paragraph is duly
authorized at the time and under the [[circumstance]] CIRCUMSTANCES he is
wearing, carrying, or transporting the weapon to wear, carry, or transport such
weapon as part of his official equipment;