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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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section.]
551A.
(d) Every person convicted of the crime of
shoplifting to the value of $100 or upwards, or as
accessory before the fact, is guilty of a felony and
shall restore any goods, or things taken, to the owner or
shall pay him their full value, and shall be fined not
more than $1,000 or be imprisoned in the penitentiary for
not more than three years. If any person is convicted
of the crime of shoplifting under the value of $100 he is
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall restore the goods and
chattels taken, or pay their full value to the owner
thereof, and be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned
for not more than 18 months [in the house of correction
or jail}, or both fined and imprisoned. [In Baltimore
City, where the value of the thing stolen does not exceed
$500, the Municipal Court of Baltimore City has
jurisdiction to try persons charged with violating this
section. Persons convicted in the Municipal Court shall
not be sentenced to the penitentiary by that court.]
SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
4B—1 (b) of Article 33 - Election Code, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1976 Replacement Volume and 1976
Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and reenacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:
Article 33 - Election Code
4B-1.
(b) The signatures shall not be appended to one
paper but shall be on separate papers, tearing one or
more signatures, and being no more than 8 1/2 inches in
width and 14 inches in length. Each paper shall contain
the names of persons residing only in one county or only
in the City of Baltimore. Each signer shall append to
his signature his residence, and the name of the county
or city where he is registered as a voter, and
immediately below the signature of any signer there shall
be either printed or typed the name of the signer.
Every paper shall be accompanied by an affidavit or
affidavits which state that the signers are registered
voters of the county or city as set forth in the petition
and that the affiant or affiants witnessed the
application of each signature to the paper. The
affidavits shall be made before a [justice of the peace,]
notary public[,] or other officer authorized to take
oaths under the laws of this State by one or more persons
known personally to the [justice of the peace,] notary
public[,] or other official, and it shall be so
certified.
SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
5(b) of Article 49 — Interest and Usury, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1976
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