MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                2215

dancing saloon, opera house, tenpin alley, barber saloon
or ball alley within this State on the Sabbath day,
commonly called Sunday; and any person or persons, or
body politic or corporate, who shall violate any
provision of this section, or cause or knowingly permit
the same to be violated by a person or persons in his,
her or its employ shall be liable to indictment in any
court of this State having criminal jurisdiction, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not less
than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred 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 or body politic or
corporate shall be fined a sum not less than one hundred
nor more than five hundred dollars; and if a natural
person shall be imprisoned, not less than ten nor more
than thirty days in the discretion of the court; and in
the case of any conviction or convictions under this
section subsequent to the second, such person or persons,
body politic or corporate shall be fined on each occasion
a sum of at least double that imposed upon him, her, them
or it on the last preceding conviction; and if a natural
person, shall be imprisoned not less than thirty nor more
than sixty days in the discretion of the court; all fines
to be imposed under this section shall be paid to the
State. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary the
provisions of this sections [section] shall not apply:

(1)   To Baltimore County, Harford County, Prince
George's County, Washington County, [or] Montgomery
County, or DORCHESTER COUNTY, OR

(2)   To any person who conscientiously believes that
the seventh day of the week ought to be observed as the
Sabbath and who actually refrains from secular business
and labor on that day, and whose business establishment
or establishments or employer's business establishment or
establishments (whether a sole proprietorship,
partnership or corporation) are actually closed on that
day; or

(3)   To any person who conscientiously believes that
the Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday night and ends at
sundown on Saturday night and who actually refrains from
secular business and labor during such period, and whose
business establishment or establishments or employer's
business establishment or establishments (whether a sole
proprietorship, partnership or corporation) are actually
closed during such period.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That new
Section 521(k) be and it is hereby added to Article 27 —
Crimes and Punishments, of the Annotated Code of Maryland