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to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 449
(House Bill 525)
AS ACT concerning

Energy Crisis — Certain Fraudulent Representations

FOR the purpose of providing that every person who
willfully conceals material facts or makes false,
fictitious, or fraudulent statements or
representations or willfully uses any false writing
or document containing false, fictitious, or
fraudulent statements in meeting the requirements of
any order, rule, or regulation promulgated pursuant
to the Governor's powers during tines of domestic
peril or the energy crisis, or in the application
for any service or benefit provided by the State in
the allocation or assignment of energy supplies is
guilty of a misdemeanor, and providing for a
penalty.

BY adding to

Article 41 — Governor — Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 15B—1

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT EH ACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 15B—1 be and it is hereby
added to Article 41 — Governor — Executive and
Administrative Departments, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) to
read as follows:

Article 41 - Governor — Executive and Administrative

Departments

15B-1.

(A) NO PERSON MAY WILLFULLY CONCEAL MATERIAL FACTS