Ch. 663                                    1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 255C

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing

Chapter 636 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1995
Section 2

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 636 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1995
Section 4

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

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

255C.

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2)     "Board" means the Board of County Commissioners of Washington
County.

(3)     "Commission" means the Washington County Gaming Commission.

(4)     "County" means Washington County.

(5)     "County agency" means an agency designated by the Board to
administer this section.

(6)     "Fund" means the Washington County Gaming Fund.

(7)     (i) "Gaming sticker" means a sticker issued by the county agency that
is required to be affixed to a tip jar packet before the tip jar packet is sold.

(ii) A gaming sticker may be in the form of a bar code or other form
that the Board designates.

(8)     "Tip jar" means a gaining device from which a number or series of
numbers or other symbol is obtained for consideration by selection of a sealed piece of
paper that may entitle the purchaser of the number or numbers or other symbol to a
payoff in cash or other manner immediately upon receipt or as a result of a subsequent
announcement of a winning number or numbers or other symbol or any other device
commonly recognized as a tip jar.

(9)     "Tip jar packet" means a package containing tips to be sold by way of a
tip jar sufficient for a single tip jar game.

(10)   "Tip jar license" means a license issued by the county agency to operate
a tip jar in the County.

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