WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 747

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

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

471.

Any and all persons, partnerships or bodies corporate owning
returnable containers, or dealing in any commodities handled or
delivered in returnable containers, INCLUDING BASKETS, TRAYS, AND
ANY OTHER TYPE OF CONTAINER THAT IS USED BY A BAKERY,
DISTRIBUTOR, RETAILER, FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT, OR ITS AGENT
TO TRANSPORT, STORE, OR CARRY BAKERY PRODUCTS, which said
containers bear securely affixed or attached thereto, or
impressed or imprinted thereon, in any manner whatsoever, a name,
mark or device whereby such container can be readily identified,
or any person engaged in the business of regularly supplying
clean laundered garments, towels, table or bed linens or other
such articles with his or its name or other marks or devices
woven, impressed or produced thereon, and who periodically
exchange such clean articles for soiled articles, may register
the same, and thereby procure all of the benefits of such
registration, guaranteed under the provisions of this subtitle,
as to all like containers, or clean laundered or soiled articles
similarly marked, whether such containers or such articles were
actually in existence or not at the time of registration. Any
such owner or dealer desiring to register such returnable
container, or such clean laundered articles, shall cause to be
prepared a clear statement of the character of such container, or
such clean laundered articles, with a comprehensive description
of such distinguishing name, mark or device, so affixed,
attached, impressed or imprinted thereto or thereon, the same to
be subscribed and acknowledged by the said owner or dealer, or by
an officer thereof, should such owner or dealer be a body
corporate; such subscription and acknowledgment to be made before
any officer qualified to take acknowledgments to deeds in the
State of Maryland. After such description shall have been so
made, subscribed and acknowledged, it shall be published in two
successive issues not in the same week, in some newspaper
published in the county where the principal office, place of
business or agency of the said owner or dealer is located; or, if
the same be located in the City of Baltimore, then by causing
such description to be printed twice a week for two successive
weeks in some daily paper published therein. Thereupon, the said
description, together with the certificate of publication,
certified to by the owner or manager of the newspaper in which
the same shall have been published, shall be recorded in the
clerk's office of the circuit court of the county in which the
principal office, place of business or agency of the said owner
or dealer is located.

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