WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                       Ch. 6

article provided, it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any or
all other persons, partnerships [of] OR bodies corporate to use
or fill any such registered returnable containers (whether
actually in existence at the time of such registration or not)
with any contents of a nature different from that delivered
therein; or to sell, buy, rent or otherwise traffic in any clean,
[laundered] LAUNDERED, or soiled articles mentioned in this
chapter so marked or designated as provided herein; or to
wilfully deface, erase, obliterate, cover up, or otherwise
remove, conceal or destroy, any such name, mark or device of
identification affixed, attached, impressed or imprinted thereto
or thereon; or to wilfully break, destroy or otherwise injure any
such returnable container, or such clean articles; or to have on
sale, offer for sale, buy, sell, use, take, give, receive, handle
in the course of business, hire, rent, lend, transport, convey in
any vehicle of any kind or character, collect from ash or garbage
receptacles, public or private dumps or premises, or to otherwise
keep in stock or store, or to otherwise dispose of, deal in, or
traffic in any of the said returnable containers, or parts or
pieces of the same, or in such [clean laundered] CLEAN,
LAUNDERED, or soiled articles, without an assignment from or the
written consent of the one causing the same to be registered; and
all such unlawful acts are declared to be misdemeanors, and upon
conviction thereof the offender for the first offense shall be
punished by an imprisonment of not more than one year, or by a
fine of not more than $50 [dollars], and for the second offense
and subsequent offenses, by imprisonment for not more than one
year, or by a fine of not more than $250 [dollars] or by both
fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court before whom
such offender is tried; the said fines and all costs incurred to
be collected in the same manner as other fines and costs are
collected. In any prosecution under this section the possession
by the one so accused of any such [clean laundered] CLEAN,
LAUNDERED, or soiled articles or of any registered returnable
container or of any part or parts thereof other than by a garbage
man collecting the same in the regular course of his business,
and other than the possession of any such container by the one
who received the same with its contents, or possession of any
registered [clean laundered] CLEAN, LAUNDERED, or soiled
articles, shall be prima facie evidence that such person is
guilty of the offenses so charged.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Redundant language, omitted punctuation, and
incorrect word due to printing error in Article 27, §
474.

Occurred: Redundant language occurred in Ch. 747,

Acts of 1987; omitted punctuation occurred prior to

1957 codification of the Annotated Code of Maryland;

and the printing error occurred in the 1972 Cumulative

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