WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 589

(2) A wholesale or retail establishment may not
cause, direct, permit, or authorize any employee or agent to
engage in or conduct business on its behalf on Sunday.

(c)  The State's Attorney of Anne Arundel County may
petition the circuit court to enjoin any violation of this
section.

(d)  (1) Any person, firm, or corporation violating the
provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction, is subject to the penalties provided by this
subsection.

(2)  The first conviction is punishable by a fine not
to exceed an amount equivalent to $500 multiplied by the number
of employees that are working in excess of the number permitted
under the provisions of §§ 534N-1 and 534N-2 of this article.

(3)  The second conviction is punishable by a fine not
to exceed an amount equivalent to $1,000 multiplied by the number
of employees that are working in excess of the number permitted
under the provisions of §§ 534N-1 and 534N-2 of this article.

(4)  The third and all subsequent convictions are
punishable by a fine not to exceed an amount equivalent to $5,000
multiplied by the number of employees that are working in excess
of the number permitted under the provisions of §§ 534N-1 and
534N-2 of this article.

(5)  Nothing contained in this section shall be
construed to permit any fine upon any employee or agent who has
been caused or directed by his employer to violate the provisions
of this section.]

[534N-2.

(a) The provisions of § 534N-1 of this article do not apply
to:

(1)  Any establishment which offers service as its
primary business;

(2)  Any business if it does not have more than six
employees on any one shift on Sunday. In addition to these six
persons the business may also have two additional persons
performing security duties;

(3)  Any person who by reason of his religious
conviction observes a day other than Sunday as his day of rest
and actually refrains from labor or secular business on that day,
and whose establishment is closed for business on that day. The
term "a day other than Sunday" as used herein shall mean any
consecutive 24-hour period;

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