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the provisions of this section. The application and the action
taken thereon by the police commissioner shall be a public
record. When the police commissioner issues said permit, he shall
receive a fee of not in excess of ten dollars ($10.00) to cover
the costs of administration of this provision; provided, however,
that no such permits shall be issued for the playing of the game
of bingo in any regular restaurant or tavern where alcoholic
beverages are sold or in any permanent place of amusement or
entertainment. Provided however that in the discretion of the
police commissioner a special annual license may be issued for a
fee of five dollars ($5.00) for the conduct over a period of one
year of bingo games in which (1) the value of any merchandise
prize awarded, or any cash prize given is five dollars ($5.00) or
less; and (2) the number of participants in a game is under one
hundred (100); and (3) the licensee is a nonprofit organization
or a nonprofit corporation. The police commissioner may for cause
revoke any special annual license. The commissioner may
promulgate such regulations as are reasonably necessary for the
administration of this section. Provided, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to permit the playing of said games
on Sunday; and provided further that the provisions of this
section shall apply only to Baltimore City.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 353

(Senate Bill 556)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Carroll County Detention Center

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount of $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant
to the governing body Board of County Commissioners of
Carroll County for the purpose of the improvement,
expansion, renovation, rehabilitation, and construction of
the Carroll County Detention Center subject to the
requirement that the Board of County Commissioners of
Carroll County provide at least an equal and matching fund
of a certain kind for the same purpose by a certain date;
and providing generally for the issue and sale of bonds
evidencing the loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That: