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(a)  Provided that in Baltimore City said licenses shall be issued by the mayor
and city council of Baltimore City under the authority of Chapter 27 of the Acts of
1951 and ordinances adopted pursuant thereto.

(b)  In Baltimore City and in Baltimore and Harford counties additional license
fees may be imposed by said city or counties, which additional fees shall be used
for the benefit of said counties or city only. Any person, partnerships, firm or
corporation applying for such license in Harford County, shall pay an additional
sum of $20.00 per annum for each free-play pinball machine, as hereinabove
described and the sum of $35.00 per annum for each free-play console machine as
hereinabove defined.

(c)  In Wicomico County,

(i) Free-play console machines, as hereinafter defined, shall not be licensed,
kept, maintained, or operated¹ from and after June 1, 1963.

(ii) Free-play pinball machines, as hereinafter defined, shall not be licensed,
kept, maintained, or operated from and after June 1, 1965.

(iii) Pinball machines which are identified only as amusement devices and do
not come within the definition of a "free-play console machine" or of a "free-play
pinball machine," and which are not treated and considered as gaming devices
under the Internal Revenue Act of the United States (Title 26, U.S.C.A., chapter
36, § 4461, as amended or supplemented from time to time) may be licensed under
and according to the provisions of this subtitle, and kept, maintained, and
operated.

(d)  Provided that in Montgomery County no more than two such machines so
licensed may be placed on one floor level of any improvement in which such
machines are located (except when in locked storage and not available for use, or
used, for public play); and further provided that any person, partnership, firm or
corporation keeping, maintaining, possessing or operating any of the aforesaid
machines without a license in violation of this section or violating any provisions of
this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be
fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred
dollars ($500.00) for each offense.

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

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 449
(Senate Bill 872)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1F of Article 43 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Health,"
subtitle "Department of Health and Mental Hygiene," to provide additional
jurisdiction, powers and duties for the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene
to survey and identify geographic areas in the State deficient in general medical
or health care facilities or services; to provide a means for the Secretary to give
certain assistance and aid to local communities and voluntary non-profit
organizations for such deficient areas; to allow, under certain circumstances, for