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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor 1907
CHAPTER 250
(House Bill 271)
AN ACT concerning
Harford County — A Prize from a Nonfranchise
Retail Merchant
FOR the purpose of enabling a nonfranchise retail
merchant in Harford County to give prizes subject to
a condition; and clarifying language.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
Section 369A(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1976 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 369A(b) of Article 27 - Crimes and
Punishments, 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hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read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 27 — Crimes and Punishments
369A.
(b) (1) [No] A retail establishment regulated or
licensed pursuant to the provisions contained in Article
56 [of the Annotated Code of Maryland] may NOT use any
game, contests, lottery or other scheme or device,
whereby a person or persons may receive gifts, prizes or
gratuities as determined by chance for the purpose of
promoting, furthering or advertising the sale of any
product or service of whatsoever nature or kind. The
fact that no purchase is required in order to participate
in the game, contest, lottery or scheme does not exclude
the game, contest, lottery or scheme from the provisions
of this section.
(2) (Nothing in this] THIS section [shall]
MAY NOT be construed as preventing any nonfranchise
retail merchant in the following counties from giving
away any prize or prizes by the act of drawing of a name
or names if no purchase or consideration is required to
qualify for the prize or prizes:
Anne Arundel County
Calvert County
Caroline County
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