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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 218
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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Criminal Law
Section 11-204(a) 11-204
Annotated Code of Maryland
(As enacted by Chapter 26 (H.B. 11) of the Acts of the General Assembly of
2002)
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article—Criminal Law
Section 11-204(b) and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(As enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 11) of the Acts of the General Assembly of
2002)
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 ALLEGANY, Anne Arundel, Charles, Howard,
Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:
Article - Criminal Law
11-204.
(a) This section applies only in ALLEGANY, Anne Arundel, Charles, Howard,
Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties.
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(b) (1) A person may not prepare, give, direct, present, perform or
participate in an obscene performance, exhibition, drama, play, show, dancing
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