The citizen., 1914-05-08
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, 1914.
CHAPTER 442.

AN ACT to repeal Section 366 of Ar
ticle 81 of the Code of Public Gen.
eral Laws of Maryland of 1904, en-.
titled Grimes and Puuishments,"
subtitle ds-Obstructing."
and to re-enact said Section 500
with amendments, and to add to said
Article under said title and sub
title, an additional section to be
known as Section 366-A, and to fol-
low directly after Section 366, and
clothing the several justices of the
peace of the State of Maryland Tex
cept those justices of the peace in
and for the City of Baltimore who
have not been selected by proper
legal authority to sit at each station
house of said Baltimore City, with
jurisdiction to hear and determine all
prosecutions or proceedings arising
under the provisions of this Act and
pronounce judgment and sentence
Hereunder.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Section 366 of Article 27 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland
of 1904, entitled Grimes and Punish
ments' subtitle Railroads -Obstruct-
Ing" be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amend
ments, and an additional Section to
be known as Section 366-A, is hereby
added to same to follow directly af-
ter Section 366, and to read as fol-
lows:
Sec. S66. Any person who shall
cling, climb, jump, step or in any
other way get upon any part of any
locomotive, engine or car, or who shall
be on any part of any locomotive, en-
gine or car, whether the same be
freight, passenger, coal or otherwise,
upon any part of the track of any
railroad within this State unless in
SO doing he acts in compliance with
the law or by permission under the
rules and regulations of the railroad,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof before any of
the several jus ices of the peace of the
State of Maryland Except those JUS
tices of the peace in and for the City
of Baltimore who have not been Sc
lected by the proper legal authority to
sit at each station house of said City
OF Baltimore), or upon conviction
thereof before any court of competent
Jurisdiction, shall be (fined not more
than twenty-five dollars, or be) sub
ject to Imprisonment in Jail or in the
House of Correction (for one month,
or to both fine and Imprisonment in
the discretion of the justice of the
peace trying the case, or court before
which the case may be tried) provid-
ed, however, that if any such person
shall be sentenced to the House OF
Correction such railroad company or
corporation, in all cases where the
same is not prohibited either by the
laws of the State of Maryland, or of
the United States, which are in eff
feet at present, or which may be
hereafter passed, shall provide free
transportation for such person OF per-
sons to said House of Correction, and
also free transportation for not more
than one officer in charge of such per-
son or persons, to said House of Cor
rection and back to the place where
such person or persons may have
been tried and convicted; or if such
person be a minor under eighteen
years of age, he may, in the discretion
of the justice of the peace or of the
court trying the case, be committed
to any reformatory institution provid-
ed by law and authorized to receive
the same for such period as said JUS
tice of the peace or the said court
may determine, not to exceed two
years. The several justices of the
peace of the State of Maryland (ex-
cept those justices of the peace in
and for the City of Baltimore VINO
have not been selected by proper legal
authority to sit at each station house
of said City of Baltimore) shall have
in addition to the jurisdiction they
now possess and which may be con-
ferred on them by or under the laws
of this State, jurisdiction to hear and
determine all prosecutions or proceed
ings arising under the provisions oil
this Act and pronounce judgment and
sentence therein, and that all Acts
and parts of Acts, and all Sections
and parts of Sections of the Code,
both of General and Local Laws, and
all amendment of and additions and
supplements thereto now in force in
the State of Maryland inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act be
and the same are hereby repealed
S66-A. And be it further enacted,
That each and every part and provis-
ion of this Act is hereby declared to
be an independent part and provision
and the holding of any part or pro-
vision to be void, ineffective, or un-
constitutional for any cause shall not
be deemed to affect any part or parts
thereof
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