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Ch. 384
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Code of Maryland (197 6 Replacement Volume and 1976
Supplement) to read as. follows:
Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
335A.
(A) A PERSON IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR IF,
WITH INTENT TO AROUSE OR GRATIFY THE SEXUAL DESIRE OF ANY
PERSON, INCLUDING THE ACTOR, HE EXPOSES HIS GENITALIA OR
PERFORMS ANY OTHER SIMILAR ACT UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES IN
WHICH, IN FACT, HIS CONDUCT IS LIKELY TO BE OBSERVED BY A
PERSON WHO WOULD BE OFFENDED OR ALARMED.
(B) THE COURT MAY IMPOSE UPON A PERSON
CONVICTED UNDER THIS SECTION IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE
THAN FIVE YEARS, A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $5,000, OR BOTH.
EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF THE COMMON LAW CRIME OF
INDECENT EXPOSURE IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND SHALL BE
PUNISHED BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN THREE YEARS OR
A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000, OR BOTH.
SECTION 2. AND BE FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 122
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Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and reenacted,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
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, for by indecently exposing his
person] on or about any public place or any steamboat
wharf, dock or public waiting room, 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, upon conviction
thereof, is subject to a fine not exceeding $100 or
imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or both, with costs
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