Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this
article for which a specific penalty is not provided and is
convicted thereof summarily before any court, shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $100 for the
first offense. For any subsequent offense the fine shall be not
less than $100 nor more than $250. All fines and costs shall be
paid in accordance with Article 38, § 4.]

[21.

Any person who shall exhibit in public any misbranded film
or film carrying official approval of the Board which approval
was not put there by the action of the Board or any person who
shall attach to or use in connection with any film or view which
has not been approved and licensed by the Maryland State Board of
Censors, any certificate or statement in the form provided by § 7
hereof or any similar certificate, statement or writing, or any
person who shall exhibit any folder, poster, picture or other
advertising matter, which folder, poster, picture or other
advertising matter is obscene, indecent, sacreligious, inhuman or
immoral, or which tends to unduly excite or deceive the public,
or containing any matter not therein contained when the approval
was granted by the Board, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction summarily in a court of competent jurisdiction,
shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $250, or to be
imprisoned for not more than 30 days, for a first offense, and
not less than $250 nor more than $500, or to be imprisoned for
not more than 30 days, for a second or subsequent offense, or be
both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. In
addition to the above penalties, the Board may also seize and
confiscate any misbranded film.]

[22.

If any person shall fail to display or exhibit on the screen
the approval seal, as issued by the Board, of a film or view,
which has been approved, and is convicted summarily in any court
of competent jurisdiction, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of
not less than $25 and not more than $50. All fines and costs
shall be paid in accordance with Article 38 § 4.]

[23.

This article shall not apply to any noncommercial exhibition
of, or noncommercial use of films or views, for purely
educational, charitable, fraternal or religious purposes, by any
religious association, fraternal society, library, museum, public
school, private school or institution of learning. The Board
may, in its discretion, without examination thereof, issue a
permit for any motion picture film, intended solely for
educational, fraternal, charitable or religious purposes, or by
any employer for the instruction or welfare of his employees,
provided that the owner thereof either personally or by his duly

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