WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 5
number of leased departments, concession areas, booths, or stalls
located therein; and
(2) Restaurants, lunchrooms, or ice-cream parlors.
Any violation of this subsection shall be prosecuted as
provided for in subsection (b) of this section.]
[(e)] (D) This section [shall] DOES not apply:
(1) [to] TO any person who conscientiously believes
that the seventh day of the week ought to be observed as the
Sabbath and who actually refrains from secular business and labor
on that day, and whose business establishment or establishments
or employer's business establishment or establishments (whether a
sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation) are actually
closed on that day; or
(2) [to] TO any person who conscientiously believes
that the Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday night and ends at
sundown on Saturday night and who actually refrains from secular
business and labor during such period, and whose business
establishment or establishments or employer's business
establishment or establishments (whether a sole proprietorship,
partnership or corporation) are actually closed during such
period.
[(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the
provisions of this section shall not apply to Baltimore City,
Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Worcester County, Harford
County, Howard County, Charles County, Talbot County, or Allegany
County.]
522.
The provisions of this section only apply in Wicomico [and
Allegany Counties] COUNTY. [It shall not be lawful to] A PERSON
MAY NOT keep open or use any dancing saloon, opera house, tenpin
alley, barber saloon or ball alley [within this State] on [the
Sabbath day, commonly called] Sunday. Any person [or persons, or
body politic or corporate,] who [shall violate] VIOLATES any
provision of this section, or cause or knowingly permit [the
same] IT to be violated by a person or persons in his, her or its
employ shall be liable to indictment in any court [of this State]
having criminal jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined a sum not less than [fifty dollars] $50 nor more than
[one hundred dollars] $100, in the discretion of the court, for
the first offense; and if convicted a second time for a violation
of this section, the person [or persons or body politic or
corporate] shall be fined a sum not less than [one hundred] $100
nor more than [five hundred dollars] $500; and if a natural
person shall be imprisoned, not less than [ten] 10 nor more than
[thirty] 30 days in the discretion of the court.[; and in the
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