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NOTES, VOTING TRUST CERTIFICATES, EQUIPMENT TRUST
CERTIFICATES, CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT, CERTIFICATES OF
PARTICIPATION, CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST, STOCK
RIGHTS, STOCK WARRANTS ISSUED BY OR IN CONNECTION WITH
ANY CORPORATION, JOINT STOCK ASSOCIATION OR SIMILAR
ORGANIZATION AND ANY OTHER INSTRUMENTS EVIDENCING
RIGHTS OF A SIMILAR CHARACTER, WHICH ARE LISTED BY THE
SECURITIES CLEARING CORPORATION AS BEING ELIGIBLE FOR
ACCEPTANCE BY THE CLEARING CORPORATION UPON DEPOSIT
WITH IT.

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

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 524
(House Bill 277)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 33 of Article 10 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement Volume), title "Attorneys at
Law and Attorneys in Fact," subtitle "Practicing Without Being Admitted to
the Bar," to increase the penalties for falsely representing oneself as an
attorney.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 33 of Article 10 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume), title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact,"
subtitle "Practicing Without Being Admitted to the Bar," is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

33.

Any person who has not been duly admitted to the bar in this State, or
elsewhere, or who, after having been so admitted, shall have been disbarred, who
shall in any manner whatever represent himself to be entitled to practice law, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a
fine of not more than [$200] $5,000.00 or confinement in jail for not more than
[[[six months] FIVE YEARS]] six months OR BE BOTH FINED AND
IMPRISONED, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT.

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

Approved May 21, 1973.