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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 202

The County Commissioners of Worcester County are
authorized to adopt and amend regulations governing the
issuance of raffle permits, to charge a fee of ten dollars
for each raffle permit, to require a statement under oath at
the conclusion of each raffle to be filed by the
organization for whom a permit has been issued, to regulate
the number of permits which may be issued to a particular
organization for each fiscal year, to provide the grounds
for refusal of a permit to any organization which has
violated the terms of this section or of the regulations
adopted pursuant to it for a period of three years and to
provide the means for determining whether a group,
organization or corporation is qualified to obtain a permit
under the provisions of this section, and to provide when a
particular raffle may be conducted.

A person, group, organization or corporation knowingly
conducting or attempting to conduct a raffle in violation of
this section shall be subject, upon conviction, to a fine
not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment for not more than one
year, or both.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 203

(House Bill 1038)

AN ACT concerning

Licenses - Hawkers and Peddlers

FOR the purpose of excluding Calvert County from certain
provisions of law requiring a certain license for
hawkers and peddlers.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses
Section 21

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 56 - Licenses