Ch. 194

LAWS OF MARYLAND

personally through its members. In Carroll County the use of
paddle wheels shall be subject to the restrictions of § 258 of
this article.

258B.

(A)  Any group of citizens of Prince George's County, or any
company, association or body corporate, bona fide organized or
hereafter bona fide organized within said county for the
promotion of the purposes of a volunteer fire department, or of
any charitable, benevolent, patriotic, fraternal, educational,
religious or civil object or objects, and not organized for the
private profit or gain of any member of such group, company,
association or body corporate, may conduct and operate any
benefit performance, such as an outdoor or indoor carnival, fair,
picnic, dance, card party, bingo party, bazaar, concert, contest,
exhibition, lecture, barbecue or dinner, to which the public is
invited or admitted with or without charge for such admission,
the net proceeds of which benefit performance shall inure to such
group, company, association or body corporate for the promotion
of and to be used for one or more of the objects hereinbefore set
forth, and not for the private gain of any member of such group
or organization; and at any such benefit performance, conducted
under the conditions herein prescribed, it shall be lawful to
award prizes in merchandise, conduct games of skill, to dispose
of merchandise and other things of value by auction or voting or
by such mechanical devices as are commonly designated as paddle
wheels, wheels of fortune, bingo, or other similar methods, and
with or without an entrance or participation charge or fee; it
shall also be lawful to award cash prizes of not more than one
thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per prize. Provided, that before
operating any such benefit performance, any such group or
organization shall first obtain from the department of
inspections and permits for Prince George's County a written
permit therefor, and, provided further, that such benefit
performance is managed and operated only by members of such group
or organization personally. Any person, company, association or
corporation operating, or attempting to operate any such benefit
performance in violation hereof, shall, upon conviction of such
violation, be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand
dollars or imprisonment in jail for a period of not more than one
year, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court.

(B)  Any group of citizens of Prince George's County, or any
company, association or body corporate, bona fide organized
within said county for the promotion of the purposes of a
volunteer fire department, or of any charitable, benevolent,
patriotic, fraternal, educational, religious or civic object or
objects, and not organized for the private profit or gain of any
member of such group, company, association or body, corporate may
conduct and operate a raffle in Prince George's County. The
proceeds from the raffle must be such as to inure to the company,

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