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establishments (whether a sole proprietorship, partnership or
corporation) are actually closed during such period.

521.

(a) No person in this State shall sell, dispose of, barter,
or deal in, or give away any articles of merchandise on Sunday,
except retailers, who may sell and deliver on said day tobacco,
cigars, cigarettes, candy, sodas and soft drinks, ice, ice cream,
ices and other confectionery, milk, bread, fruits, vegetables,
gasoline; gasohol, oils and greases.

(d). This section is not to apply to apothecaries and such
apothecaries may sell on Sunday drugs, medicines, and patent
medicines as on weekdays; and this section shall not apply to the
sale of newspapers and periodicals.

(f) This section shall not apply (1) to any person who
conscientiously believes that the seventh day of the week ought
to be observed as the Sabbath and who actually refrains from
secular business and labor on that day, and whose business
establishment or establishments or employer's business
establishment or establishments (whether a sole proprietorship,
partnership or corporation) are actually closed on that day; or
(2) to any person who conscientiously believes that the Sabbath
begins at sundown on Friday night and ends at sundown on Saturday
night and who actually refrains from secular business and labor
during such period, and whose business establishment or
establishments or employer's business establishment or
establishments (whether a sole proprietorship, partnership or
corporation) are actually closed during such period.

(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the
provisions of this section shall not apply to Baltimore City,
Baltimore County, CARROLL COUNTY, Anne Arundel County, Worcester
County, Harford County, Howard County, Charles County, or Talbot
County.

522.

It shall not be lawful to keep open or use any dancing
saloon, opera house, tenpin alley, barber saloon or ball alley
within this State on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday.
Any person or persons, or body politic or corporate, who shall
violate any provision of this section, or cause or knowingly
permit the same to be violated by a person or persons in his, her
or its employ shall be liable to indictment in any court of this
State having criminal jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court, for the
first offense; and if convicted a second time for a violation of
this section, the person or persons or body politic or corporate
shall be fined a sum not less than one hundred nor more than five

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