1654                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 586

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

369A.

(b) [(1)] A retail establishment regulated or licensed
pursuant to the provisions contained in Article 56 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) This section may not be construed as
preventing any nonfranchise retail merchant except in Howard
County 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.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 587

(House Bill 832)

AN ACT concerning

Worcester County — State's Attorney

FOR the purpose of authorizing the State's Attorney for
Worcester County to engage in the private practice of
law, subject to a certain condition; specifying that
the payment of expenses for the office of the State's
Attorney by the County Commissioners of Worcester
County shall be subject to the approval of the County
Commissioners, in place of the existing condition and
procedure applicable to the payment of the expenses;
and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 — Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact
Section 40(x)(1) and (2)