HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 361

(Senate Bill 708)

AN ACT concerning

Health Care Facilities - Property of Residents

FOR the purpose of altering the minimum amount of residents'
money that certain health care facilities shall safeguard
without depositing the money in an account; and altering the
amount of money the facility shall deposit in certain
circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 19-346(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

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

Article - Health - General

19-346.

(d) (1) Each facility shall have adequate safeguards for
property of a resident that is entrusted to the facility.

(2) (i) A facility to which money is entrusted shall
deposit the money in an account if the facility cannot keep the
money safely.

(ii) If the facility is operated by a State,
county, or municipal agency and one resident entrusts more than
$300 to the facility, the facility shall deposit the amount in
excess of $300.

(iii) If the facility is operated by a person
other than a State, county, or municipal agency and one resident
entrusts more than $100 to the facility, the facility shall
deposit the amount in excess of $100.

(iv) If the total amount of money that is
entrusted to the facility by its residents exceeds ($10] $50 per
resident, the facility shall deposit the amount in excess of
[$10] $50 per resident or [$500] $1,000, whichever is less.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.