HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                        3177

APPROPRIATE GOVERNING BODY AND THE COMMITTEE OF WATERMEN OF ANY
COUNTY AFFECTED BY THE RESTRICTION.

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

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 644

(House Bill 704)

AN ACT concerning

Disorderly Conduct and Related Crimes - Penalties

FOR the purpose of altering the penalties for certain crimes
relating to disorderly conduct, obstruction of free passage
on public streets and highways , and disturbance of the
public peace, and trespass.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 121, 122, 123, 124, and 577 and 124
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

121.

Any person who shall wilfully obstruct or hinder the free
passage of persons passing along or by any public street or
highway in any city, town or county of this State, or who shall
wilfully disturb any neighborhood in such city, town or county by
loud and unseemly noises, or shall profanely curse and swear or
use obscene language upon or near to any such street or highway
within the hearing of persons passing by or along such highway,
or shall wilfully hinder or obstruct the free passage of persons
passing on or through or out of the station grounds of any
railroad in the State, or who shall wilfully act in a disorderly
manner within such station grounds by making such loud and
unseemly noises, or by catching hold of and soliciting persons on
said grounds against the will of such person, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be sentenced to a fine of not less than one
dollar and not more than [one hundred dollars] $500 or shall be