Ch. 5

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b) Whenever any person shall charge on oath or affirmation
before a judge of the District Court, or any grand jury shall
present that any person or persons, house, company, association
or body corporate has or have [violated] VIOLATED, in Montgomery
County, any of the provisions of § 118 or subsection (a) of this
section, and shall request the judge so to do, or in the case of
presentment by the grand jury, the grand jury shall request the
court to direct the clerk of the court issuing the warrant, the
judge or clerk of the court, upon the direction of the [court]
COURT, shall issue his warrant, in which the house, building or
other place or automobile or other vehicle in which the violation
is alleged to have occurred shall be specially described,
directed to the chief of police of the county, commanding him
thoroughly to search the described house, building or other
place, and the appurtenances or vehicle, and if any violation is
found, to take into his possession and safely keep, to be
provided as evidence when required, all alcoholic beverages other
than beer and light wine, if the same is found in quantities and
under conditions to indicate that it is kept for any barter, or
any sale, or gift to a person under 21 years of age, and all the
means, materials and instrumentalities for manufacturing,
dispensing, otherwise disposing of, or transporting the same, and
all the paraphernalia or part of the paraphernalia of a barroom
or drinking saloon, and forthwith report in writing the facts to
the State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and any intoxicating
liquors or the means, materials and instrumentalities for
manufacturing, transporting, dispensing, or otherwise disposing
of the same or the paraphernalia or part of the paraphernalia of
a barroom or drinking saloon shall constitute prima facie
evidence of the violation of the provisions of § 118 or
subsection (a) of this section, as charged or presented.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Omitted commas in Article 2B, § 196(b).

Occurred: Prior to the 1957 codification of the
Annotated Code of Maryland.

Article 19 - Comptroller

38.

Should any county or any incorporated city or town or taxing
district situated within this State fail or refuse to adopt or to
continue in use the uniform system of municipal financial
reporting applicable to it as provided in this subtitle, the
Comptroller, after notification by the Director of the Department
of Fiscal Services[,] of such failure or [refusal] REFUSAL, shall
be authorized to order the discontinuance of payment of all
funds, grants or State aid which said county, incorporated city
or town or taxing district is entitled to receive under State
law. This section shall have specific reference to all funds,

- 890 -