HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(2) THE OWNER MAY NOT KNOWINGLY PERMIT THE YACHT
TO BE OPERATED ON THE WATERS OF THE STATE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 12, 1981.

CHAPTER 360

(House Bill 425)

AN ACT concerning

Anne Arundel County - Supermarkets and Food Stores

FOR the purpose of permitting supermarkets and food stores
in Anne Arundel County to conduct business on certain
Sundays.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 534N-2

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

534N-2.

(a) The provisions of § 534N-1 of this article do not
apply to:

(1)  Any establishment which offers service as
its primary business;

(2)  Any business if it does not have more than
six employees on any one shift on Sunday. In addition to
these six persons the business may also have two additional
persons performing security duties;

(3)  Any person who by reason of his religious
conviction observes a day other than Sunday as his day of
rest and actually refrains from labor or secular business on
that day, and whose establishment is closed for business on
that day. The term "a day other than Sunday" as used herein
shall mean any consecutive 24-hour period;