1614                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                    Ch. 438

NOT LESS THAN $250 NOR MORE THAN $1,000, OR IMPRISONED FOR NOT
MORE THAN 90 DAYS, OR BOTH FINED AND IMPRISONED.

(b)  Any employing unit or any officer or agent of an
employing unit or any other person who makes a false statement or
representation knowing it to be false, or who knowingly fails to
disclose a material fact, to prevent or reduce the payment of
benefits to any individual entitled thereto, or to avoid becoming
or remaining subject hereto or to avoid or reduce any
contribution or other payment required from an employing unit
under this article, or who wilfully fails or refuses to make any
such contributions or other payment or to furnish any reports
required hereunder or to produce or permit the inspection or
copying of records as required hereunder, [shall be punished by a
fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00, or by
imprisonment for not longer than ninety days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment; and each such false statement or
representation or failure to disclose a material fact, and each
day of such failure or refusal shall constitute a separate

Offense] SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR. UPON CONVICTION, THE
PERSON SHALL BE FINED AN AMOUNT NOT LESS THAN $250 NOR MORE THAN
$1,000, OR IMPRISONED FOR NOT MORE THAN 90 DAYS, OR BOTH FINED
AND IMPRISONED.

(c)  Any person who shall wilfully violate any provision of
this article or any rule or regulation thereunder, the violation
of which is made unlawful or the observance of which is required
under the terms of this article, and for which a penalty is
neither prescribed herein nor provided by any other applicable
statute, [shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor
more than $500.00, or by imprisonment for not longer than ninety
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each day such
violation continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense]

SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR. UPON CONVICTION, THE PERSON
SHALL BE FINED AN AMOUNT NOT LESS THAN $250 NOR MORE THAN $1,000,
OR IMPRISONED FOR NOT MORE THAN 90 DAYS, OR BOTH FINED AND
IMPRISONED.

(e) When any person is found by the Executive Director to
have made a false statement or representation knowing it to be
false or to have knowingly failed to disclose a material fact to
obtain or increase any benefit or other payment under this
article, he shall repay the fund a sum equal to all of the
benefits received by or paid to him for each week with respect to
which the false statement or representation was made or with
respect to which he failed to disclose a material fact. IN

ADDITION, THE PERSON SHALL PAY INTEREST OF 1.5 PERCENT PER MONTH
ON THE SUM DUE AND OWING. INTEREST SHALL ACCRUE FROM THE DATE
THE PERSON IS NOTIFIED BY THE SECRETARY THAT THE PERSON RECEIVED
BENEFITS TO WHICH THE PERSON WAS NOT ENTITLED. The amount may be

recovered from benefits payable to him or which may be payable to
him in the future, or in the manner provided in § 15(f) of this
article for the collection of past-due contributions. The person
shall also be disqualified from the receipt of benefits payable
to him for the period of one year from the date on which the