3178                                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                                         Ch. 644

subject to imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or shall
be subject to both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the court and shall pay costs of the prosecution.

122.

Any person who shall be acting in a disorderly manner to the
disturbance of the public peace, or who shall wilfully act in a
disorderly manner by making loud and unseemly noises or by
profanely cursing, swearing or using obscene language, on or
about any public place or any steamboat wharf, dock or public
waiting room, or in or about the station grounds of any railroad
in the State, or in or on any steamboat, streetcar, electric car,
railroad car, passenger train or other public conveyance, or on
the mall or adjacent parking areas of any combination of
privately owned retail establishments commonly known as a
shopping center to which the general public is invited for
business purposes, or who shall wilfully catch hold of and
solicit persons against the will of said person, or obstruct
their free passage to or through or out of such public place,
steamboat wharves, docks, public waiting rooms, railroad
stations, streetcars, electric cars, railroad cars, passenger
trains or other public conveyances, or on the mall or adjacent
parking areas of any combination of privately owned retail
establishments commonly known as a shopping center to which the
general public is invited for business purposes, upon conviction
thereof, is subject to a fine not exceeding [$100] $500 or
imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or both, with costs imposed
in the discretion of the court. Any fine shall be paid pursuant
to the provisions of Article 38, § 4. Any person who shall commit
any of the crimes, offenses or misdemeanors as defined by this
section may be arrested, tried and convicted as herein provided,
in any county or city in this State, where said public place or
said shopping center may be located, or in any county or city in
this State, from, to or through which the said streetcar,
electric car, railroad car, passenger train, or other public
conveyance may run, or into which he may be brought by said car
or other public conveyance; or in any county or city in the State
in which he may be found after said crimes, offenses or
misdemeanors have been committed. And any person who shall commit
any of the crimes, misdemeanors or offenses herein mentioned upon
any steamboat, upon the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, within the
limits of this State, and without the body of any county thereof,
may be tried in any court of this State having jurisdiction of
similar crimes, offenses and misdemeanors of the county in which
he may be arrested or into which he may be first brought.

123.

(a) A person may not act in a disorderly manner to the
disturbance of the public peace, upon any public street, highway,
alley, park or parking lot, or in any vehicle that is in or upon
any street, highway, alley, park or parking lot, in any city,
town, or county in this State, or at any place of public worship,
or public resort or amusement in any city, town or county in this