HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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196.

(b) Whenever any person shall charge on oath or
affirmation before a judge of the District Court, or any
grand jury shall present that any person or persons, house,
company, association or body corporate has or have violated
in Montgomery County, any of the provisions of § 118 or
subsection (a) of this section, and shall request the judge
so to do, or in the case of presentment by the grand jury,
the [said] grand jury shall request the court to direct the
clerk of the court issuing the warrant, the judge or clerk
of the court, upon the direction of the court [as aforesaid]
shall issue his warrant, in which the house, building or
other place or automobile or other vehicle in which the
violation is alleged to have occurred ' shall be specially
described, directed to the chief of police of [said]. THE
county, commanding him thoroughly to search the described
house, building or other place, and the appurtenances
[thereof,] or vehicle, and if any [such] VIOLATION [shall
there be] IS found, to take into his possession and safely
keep, to be provided as evidence when required, all
alcoholic beverages other than beer and light wine, if the
same [shall be] IS found in quantities and under conditions
to indicate that it is kept for any barter, or any sale, or
gift to a [minor or minors] PERSON UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE,
[as aforesaid,] and all . the means, materials and
instrumentalities for manufacturing, dispensing, otherwise
disposing of, or transporting the same, and all the
paraphernalia or part of the paraphernalia of a barroom or
drinking saloon, and forthwith report in writing the facts
to the State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and any
[such] intoxicating liquors or the means, materials and
instrumentalities for manufacturing, transporting,
dispensing, or otherwise disposing of the same or the
paraphernalia or part of the paraphernalia of a barroom or
drinking saloon shall constitute prima facie evidence of the
violation of the provisions of § 118 or subsection (a) of
this section, as charged or presented. This subsection also
applies to beer and light wine with respect to the sale or
gift to a person [under eighteen years] NOT DESIGNATED UNDER
§ 2(T)(2) OF THIS ARTICLE.

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

400.

Any person under the age of [twenty-one] 21 years,
except where beer or light wine is involved, OR any person
[under the age of eighteen years] NOT DESIGNATED UNDER
ARTICLE 2B, § 2(T)(2) OF THE CODE, who knowingly and
wilfully makes any misrepresentation or false statement as
to his age, and by reason of [such] THE misrepresentation or
false statement obtains any spirituous or fermented liquors
from any other person licensed to sell spirituous or