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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 351

122.

Any person who shall be acting in a disorderly
manner to the disturbance of the public peace, or who
shall wilfully act in a disorderly manner by making loud
and unseemly noises or by profanely cursing, swearing or
using obscene language, or by indecently exposing his
person on or about any public place or any steamboat
wharf, dock or public waiting root, or in or about the
station grounds of any railroad in the State, or in or on
any steamboat, streetcar, electric car, railroad car,
passenger train or other public conveyance, OR ON THE
MALL OR ADJACENT PARKING AREAS OF ANY COMBINATION OF
PRIVATELY OWNED RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS COMMONLY KNOWN AS A
SHOPPING CENTER TO WHICH THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS INVITED
FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES, or who shall wilfully catch hold
of and solicit persons against the will of said person,
or obstruct their free passage to or through or out of
such public place, steamboat wharves, docks, public
waiting rooms, railroad stations, streetcars, electric
cars, railroad cars, passenger trains or other public
conveyances, OR ON THE MALL OR ADJACENT PARKING AREAS OF
ANY COMBINATION OF PRIVATELY OWNED RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS
COMMONLY KNOWN AS A SHOPPING CENTER TO WHICH THE GENERAL
PUBLIC IS INVITED FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES, [shall] upon
conviction thereof, [be sentenced to a fine of not less
than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs.]
IS SUBJECT TO A FINE NOT EXCEEDING $100 OR IMPRISONMENT
NOT EXCEEDING 30 DAYS, OR BOTH, WITH COSTS IMPOSED IN THE
DISCRETION OF THE COURT. Any fine shall be paid pursuant
to the provisions of Article 38, § 4. Any person who
shall commit any of the crimes, offenses or misdemeanors
as defined by this section may be arrested, tried and
convicted as herein provided, in any county or city in
this State, where said public place OR SAID SHOPPING
CENTER may be located, or in any county or city in this
State, from, to or through which the said streetcar,
electric car, railroad car, passenger train, or other
public conveyance may run, or into which he may be
brought by said car or other public conveyance; or in any
county or city in the State in which he may be found
after said crimes, offenses or misdemeanors have been
committed. And any person who shall commit any of the
crimes, misdemeanors or offenses herein mentioned upon
any steamboat, upon the waters of the Chesapeake Bay,
within the limits of this State, and without the body of
any county thereof, may be tried in any court of this
State having jurisdiction of similar crimes, offenses and
misdemeanors of the county in which he may be arrested or
into which he may be first brought.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.