Ch. 157

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 157

(Senate Bill 251)

AN ACT concerning

Slot Machines - Nonprofit Organizations

FOR the purpose of permitting certain nonprofit organizations to
own or operate a slot machine under certain circumstances in
certain counties on the Eastern Shore; requiring a slot
machine to meet certain conditions and certain records to be
maintained for a slot machine to be eligible for use under
this Act; requiring an eligible organization to make a
certain report under affidavit to the State Comptroller;
providing for the licensing of certain nonprofit
organizations by application in the county in which the
organization plans to locate the slot machine; requiring
certain affidavits from certain persons; prohibiting the
misrepresentation of certain information on the. application;
providing for a penalty for any misrepresentation on the
application; requiring a license sticker to be placed on the
slot machine; defining a certain term; and generally
relating to certain nonprofit organizations owning or
operating slot machines.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 264B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

264B.

Any machine, apparatus or device is a slot machine within
the provisions of this section if it is one that is adapted for
use in such a way that, as a result of the insertion or deposit
therein, or placing with another person of any piece of money,
coin, token or other object, such machine, apparatus or device is
caused to operate or may be operated, and by reason of any
element of chance or of other outcome of such operation
unpredictable by him, the user may receive or become entitled to
receive any piece of money, coin, token or other object

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