HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 66A - Moving Pictures

19.

(b) Any person who shall sell, lease, lend, exhibit
or use any film in this State without having first secured
approval thereof and a license therefor in accordance with
the procedures set forth in subsection (a) above, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction summarily before
a court, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than
[fifty ($50.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00)
dollars, or to imprisonment for not more than thirty (30)
days,] $100 NOR MORE THAN $250, OR TO BE IMPRISONED FOR NOT
MORE THAN 30 DAYS, FOR A FIRST OFFENSE, AND NOT LESS THAN
$250 NOR MORE THAN $500, OR TO BE IMPRISONED FOR NOT MORE
THAN 30 DAYS, FOR A SECOND OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE, or to be
both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

20.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this
article for which a specific penalty is not provided and is
convicted thereof summarily before any court, shall be
sentenced to pay a fine of not less than [twenty-five
dollars, nor more than fifty dollars,] $50 NOR MORE THAN
$100 for the first offense. For any subsequent offense the
fine shall be not less than [fifty dollars, nor more than
one hundred dollars.] $100 NOR MORE THAN $250. All fines and
costs shall be paid in accordance with Article 38, § 4.

21.

Any person who shall exhibit in public any misbranded
film or film carrying official approval of the Board which
approval was not put there by the action of the Board or any
person who shall attach to or use in connection with any
film or view which has not been approved and licensed by the
Maryland State Board of Censors, any certificate or
statement in the form provided by § 7 hereof or any similar
certificate, statement or writing, or any person who shall
exhibit any folder, poster, picture or other advertising
matter, which folder, poster, picture or other advertising
matter is obscene, indecent, sacreligious, inhuman or
immoral, or which tends to unduly excite or deceive the
public, or containing any matter not therein contained when
the approval was granted by the Board, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction summarily in a court of
competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than [fifty
dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or
imprisonment for not over thirty days,] $100 NOR MORE THAN
$250, OR TO BE IMPRISONED FOR NOT MORE THAN 30 DAYS, FOR A
FIRST OFFENSE, AND NOT LESS THAN $250 NOR MORE THAN $500, OR
TO BE IMPRISONED FOR NOT MORE THAN 30 DAYS, FOR A SECOND OR