MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1909

proprietorship, partnership or corporation) are actually
closed during such period.

521.

(a)    No person in this State shall sell, dispose
of, barter, or deal in, or give away any articles of
merchandise on Sunday, except retailers, who may sell and
deliver on said day tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, candy,
sodas and soft drinks, ice, ice cream, ices and other
confectionery, milk, bread, fruits, vegetables, gasoline,
oils and greases,

(b)    In Anne Arundel, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot
counties, in addition to the articles of merchandise
hereinbefore mentioned, retailers may sell, barter, deal
in, and deliver on Sunday the following articles of
merchandise: butter, eggs, cream, soap and other
detergents, disinfectants, vegetables, meats, and all
other food or foodstuffs prepared or intended for human
or household pet consumption, automobile accessories and
parts, boating and fishing accessories, artificial and
natural flowers and shrubs, toilet goods, hospital
supplies, thermometers, camera films, souvenirs, surgical
instruments, rubber goods, paper goods, drags, medicines,
patent medicines, and all other articles used for the
relief of pain or prescribed by a physician; provided,
however, that nothing in this subtitle shall be construed
to prevent the operation of any retail establishment on
Sunday, the operation of which does not entail the
employment of more than one person, not including the
owner or proprietor. Every market or department store
in which stalls or departments are rented or concessions
given to individual merchants or vendors shall be
considered as one establishment and each stall or
department thereof is not a separate establishment.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to allow
any person or retailer to sell, dispose of, barter, deal
in, deliver, give away, show, or offer for sale any motor
vehicle or any certificate of title for any motor vehicle
on Sunday.

(c)    Any person violating any one of the provisions
of this section shall be liable to indictment in any
court in this State having criminal jurisdiction, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum of not less
than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, in the
discretion of the court, for the first offense, and if
convicted a second time for a violation of this section,
the person or persons so offending shall be fined a sum
not less than $50 nor more than $500, and be imprisoned
for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days, in the
discretion of the court, and his, her or their license,
if any was issued, shall be declared null and void by the