1634                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 146

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 56 - Licenses

20B.

(a) (1) Every person, firm, association or
corporation, keeping, maintaining or operating for public
entertainment or amusement within Garrett County, any claw
machine, pinball machine (console or other), shuffleboard,
mechanical bowling game, or any similar device for public
amusement, whose operation requires the insertion of a coin
or token, and the result of whose operation depends in whole
or in part, upon the skill of the operator, whether or not
it affords an award to a successful operator, shall obtain a
license from the clerk of the Circuit Court of Garrett
County to do so. The annual license fee [shall be] IS $30
for each machine or device AND SHALL BE PRORATED QUARTERLY.
All annual licenses shall expire on the thirtieth day of
April in each year AND ARE TRANSFERABLE TO A MACHINE OF THE
SAME TYPE.

(2) The license fees collected under the provisions of
this section shall be paid to the county for deposit in the
county funds and disbursed therefrom in the manner and for
the purposes prescribed by the county commissioners.

(b)  Any service or merchandise machine is excluded
from this section.

(c)  Each machine or device so licensed shall have
affixed to it a [permanent and visible stamp] CERTIFICATE
showing that the license fee has been paid. [The stamp
evidencing payment of the license fee may not be transferred
from one machine or device to another machine or device.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 4, 1982.

CHAPTER 147
(Senate Bill 910)
AN ACT concerning