Ch. 382                                    1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

OR IN THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY AND MAY DEFINE, FIX, OR LIMIT THE
AMOUNT, TERMS, SCOPE, AND DURATION OF ANY CREDIT OR EXEMPTION
PROVIDED FOR OR AFFIRMED UNDER THIS SUBSECTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1994.

Approved May 2, 1994.

CHAPTER 382
(House Bill 756)

AN ACT concerning .

Charles County - Obscene Performances

FOR the purpose of adding' Charles County to the counties in which certain obscene
performances are banned.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 418B

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

418B.

(a)     Any person who as actor, dancer, owner, manager, producer, director or agent
or in any other capacity, prepares, gives, directs, presents, performs or participates in any
obscene performance, exhibition, drama, play, show, dancing exhibition, tableau, or
entertainment in which live persons perform or participate in an obscene manner in the
presence of any other person or persons who have paid a consideration of any type
whatsoever to observe the exhibition or performance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
on conviction shall be fined or imprisoned according to the penalty set forth under § 424
of this article.

(b)     Every owner, lessee, or manager of any theatre, garden, building, room, place
or structure, who knowingly permits the same to be used for the purpose of any such
exhibition as enumerated in paragraph (a) of this section, or who assents to its use for any
such purpose shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined or
imprisoned according to the penalty set forth under § 424 of this article.

(c)     This section applies only in Anne Arundel, CHARLES, Howard, Wicomico,
and Worcester Counties.

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