MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 91

Approved April 1, 1976.

CHAPTER 63

(House Bill 158)

AN ACT concerning

Gypsies[[, Fortune Tellers,]] and Nomads —
Licensing and Regulations

FOR the purpose of repealing certain requirements for
licensing and regulations applicable to gypsies[[,
fortune tellers,]] and any person or persons,
composing bands of nomads, who have no permanent
place of abode in the State.

BY repealing

Article 56 — Licenses

Section 131, 132, 133, 133A, and 134

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 131, 132, 133, 133A, and 134 of
Article 56 — Licenses, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they
are hereby repealed:

Article 56 - Licenses

[131.

It shall not be lawful for any roving bands of
nomads, commonly called gypsies, or any person or persons
composing any such bands, who have no permanent place of
abode in the State of Maryland, to pitch or settle its or
their encampment or carry on its or their business of
transaction or practice their craft within the limits of
any county of this State unless they, or some of them,
shall first obtain from the clerk of the circuit court
for any county of this State a license for such bands to
pitch or settle its or their encampment or carry on its
or their business or practice their craft in said county,
for which shall be paid by the person applying for such
license to the clerk of the said court the sum of one
thousand dollars, for the use of said county, and a
further sum of fifty cents to the clerk for his fee for
issuing the same, such license to be issued in the name
of the band for which such license is obtained, and if
the band for which such license is obtained has no name
by which the same is generally known by its members, then
the party applying for such license shall designate to