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Session Laws, 1975
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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  43

492.

No person whatsoever shall work or do any bodily
labor on the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday; and no
person having children or servants shall command, or
wittingly or willingly suffer any of them to do any
manner of work or labor on the Lord's day (works of
necessity and charity always excepted), nor shall suffer
or permit any children or servants to profane the Lord's
day by gaming, fishing, fowling, hunting, or unlawful
pastime or recreation; and every person transgressing
this section and being hereof convicted shall forfeit
five dollars, which, if the fine is imposed by a circuit
court of any county or the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
shall be applied to the use of the county or city as the
case may be. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary,
the provisions of this section shall not apply:

(1) To Baltimore County, Prince George's County,
Washington County, Hardford County, Worcester County,
Montgomery County, [or] Dorchester County, [or] CHARLES
COUNTY, OR

521.

(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the
provisions of this section shall not apply to Baltimore
County, Worcester County, [or] Harford County, OR CHARLES
COUNTY.

522.

It shall not be lawful to keep open or use any
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

 

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