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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="11-204" title_number="11" title_name="Indecency and Obscenity" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Obscene Matter">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only in Allegany, Anne Arundel, Charles, Howard, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not prepare, give, direct, present, perform or participate in an obscene performance, exhibition, drama, play, show, dancing exhibition, tableau, or other entertainment in which individuals perform or participate live in an obscene manner in the presence of individuals who have paid any kind of consideration to observe the exhibition or performance.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An owner, lessee, or manager of a building, garden, place, room, structure, or theater may not knowingly allow or assent to the use of the premises for the types of exhibitions prohibited by paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for a first violation, imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for each subsequent violation, imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
