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Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

417.

As used in this subtitle,

(2) "Person" means any individual, partnership,
firm, association, corporation, or other legal entity[, but
shall not be construed to include an employee of any
individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or
other legal entity operating a theatre which shows motion
pictures if the employee is not an officer thereof or has no
financial interest therein other than receiving salary and
wages ].

418.

[Every] ANY person who knowingly sends or causes to be
sent, or brings or causes to be brought, into this State for
sale or distribution, or in this State prepares, publishes,
prints, exhibits, distributes, or offers to distribute, or
has in his possession with intent to distribute or to
exhibit or offer to distribute, any obscene matter is guilty
of a misdemeanor.

SECTION 2. AND BE II FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 22, 1978.

CHAPTER 22
(Senate Bill 222)
AN ACT concerning

Education Article

FOR the purpose of adding a new Article to the Annotated
Code of Maryland to be designated and known as the
"Education Article", to revise, restate, and recodify
the laws of this State relating and pertaining to
education, including those dealing with the
organization, structure, operations, financing, duties,
and authority of the various education agencies in this
State, including the State Board of Education, the
Department of Education, the County Boards of
Education, the Board of School Commissioners of