WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 195

CHAPTER 195

(House Bill 77)

AN ACT concerning

Worcester County and Anne Arundel Counties - Obscene Performances

- Prohibition

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person from participating in a
certain manner in certain obscene performances or
entertainment in Worcester County; prohibiting certain
persons from knowingly permitting certain premises to be
used for obscene performances in Worcester County; defining
certain terms repealing a certain definition of the term
"obscene" for the purpose of adopting the standard for
obscenity stated by the Supreme Court in Miller v.
California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973); providing penalties; and
generally relating to the prohibition of obscene
performances in Worcester County and Anne Arundel counties.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 418B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

418B.

(a)  Any person who as actor, dancer, owner, manager,
producer, director or agent or in any other capacity, prepares,
gives, directs, presents, performs or participates in any obscene
performance, exhibition, drama, play, show, dancing exhibition,
tableau, or entertainment in which live persons perform or
participate in an obscene manner in the presence of any other
person or persons who have paid a consideration of any type
whatsoever to observe the exhibition or performance; and

(b)  Every owner, lessee, or manager of any theatre, garden,
building, room, place or structure, who knowingly permits the
same to be used for the purpose of any such exhibition as
enumerated in paragraph (a) hereof, or who assents to its use for
any such purpose shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon

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