1642                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 787

[said] THE renewal. No person granted a license under the provisions of the
subheading shall operate a moving picture machine after the expiration of [said]
THE license or after [said] THE license shall have been suspended or revoked as
herein provided, unless the [said] THE license or renewal of same shall have been
granted as herein provided.

11-7.

Any person taking a false oath in reference to his age or time that he has
operated under a licensed operator, or length of time that he has operated a
moving picture machine, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction in
the Criminal Court of Baltimore City be fined not less than [ten dollars (10.00)]
FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) nor more than [fifty dollars ($50.00)] ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00). Any person failing to pass an examination
SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED TO RETAKE IT within six months from the
date of THE last examination. The Board shall have THE power to investigate the
cause of any fire in a moving picture parlor or theatre, and to revoke the
operator's license upon satisfactory proof that the fire was caused by the operator's
negligence or carelessness. The Board, on examining any applicant hereunder, shall
give him a thorough test as to his practical work, together with such verbal
examination [,] as the Board may deem necessary. The Board shall have the
power to enter any operating room for the purpose of inspection at any time, and
shall also have the power at any time to re-examine any operator upon due notice
to him, and upon sufficient cause shown, suspend or entirely revoke a license
theretofore granted.

11-8.

Any manager or owner of a moving picture parlor or theatre who employs a
moving picture machine operator, as in this subheading defined, without [said]
THE operator having first procured a license from [said] THE Board in the
manner herein required, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction [before a police justice or in the Criminal Court of Baltimore] be fined
not less than [five dollars ($5.00)] FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) nor more than
[twenty-five dollars ($25.00)] TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS
($250.00) for each and every offense.

11-10.

The [said] Board of Examiners shall be paid a per diem of [five dollars
($5.00)] FIFTEEN DOLLARS ($15.00) for each day actually in session, and shall
pay the expense of maintaining their office out of the proceeds derived from
licenses and renewals, including office rent, salary, etc.; and no money shall be
paid from the State Treasury for any expense of this Board; any surplus which
may exist at the end of the term of the [said] Board shall be [returned]
TURNED OVER to the Treasurer of the State; the [said] Board shall meet as
often as necessary for the proper transaction of its business, and shall give at least
five days' notice in some daily newspaper published in Baltimore City of the time
and place of meeting for the purpose of examining applicants; [said] THE Board
shall meet once in each month; and all licenses and renewals of licenses shall
expire on the first day of May of each year.

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

Approved May 24, 1973.