Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Any member or employee of the Board may enter any place
where films or views are exhibited; and such member or employee
is hereby empowered and authorized to prevent the display or
exhibition of any film or view which has not been duly approved
by the Board.]

[15.

No person or corporation shall exhibit or offer to another
for exhibition purposes any poster, banner or other similar
advertising matter in connection with any motion picture film,
which poster, banner or matter is obscene, indecent, immoral,
inhuman, sacrilegious or of such character that its exhibition
would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime. If any such
poster, banner or similar advertising matter is so exhibited or
offered to another for exhibition it shall be sufficient ground
for the revocation of the certificate or license for said film
issued by the Board.]

[16.

This article shall be enforced by the Board. In carrying
out and enforcing the purpose of this article, it may adopt such
reasonable rules as it may deem necessary. Such rules shall not
be inconsistent with the laws of Maryland. The exercise or
performance of all powers, authority, duties and functions vested
in the Board by the provisions of this article shall be subject
to the power and authority of the Secretary of Licensing and
Regulation as set forth in Article 41 of this Code, or elsewhere
in the laws of this State.]

[17.

Every person intending to sell, lease, exhibit or use any
film or view in the State of Maryland shall furnish the Board,
when the application for approval is made, a description of the
film or view to be exhibited, sold or leased, and the purposes
thereof; and shall submit the film or view to the Board for
examination; and shall furnish a written statement or affidavit
that the duplicate film or view is an exact copy of the original
film or view as submitted for examination to the Board, and that
all eliminations, changes or rejections made or required by the
Board in the original film or view have been or will be made in
the duplicate. Any person who shall make any false statement in
any such written statement or affidavit to the Board shall, upon
conviction thereof summarily before a court, be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than
fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and any
certificate or license issued upon a false or misleading
affidavit or application shall be void ab initio; and any change
or alteration in a film after license, except the elimination of
a part or except upon written direction of the Board, shall be a

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