950                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 288

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

28.

If any candidate at an election to be held under the
Constitution and laws of this State, or any other person
whatever, shall at any time before or on the day of any
election give or bestow, or directly or indirectly promise
any gift or reward to secure any person's vote or ballot at
any election, or shall keep or suffer to be kept any house,
tent, booth, or other accommodation in any part of any
district at any time during the day of holding such
election, and before the close thereof, at his expense,
where any [victuals or] intoxicating liquors shall be
gratuitously given or dealt out to voters, every such person
or candidate so offending shall, on conviction thereof in
the court of the county or city wherein such offense may be
committed, be fined at the discretion of the court a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars, and suffer such imprisonment
as the court may adjudge, not exceeding six months and such
other penalties as are prescribed by the Constitution[; one
half of the fine to go to the informer].

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

Approved May 14, 1979.

CHAPTER 289

(Senate Bill 893)

AN ACT concerning

Election Code - Judges of Elections

FOR the purpose of prohibiting any judges of    election from

distributing any listing of persons    voting or not

voting at an election; and providing    penalties for
violations.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 24-8

Annotated Code of Maryland