HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 991
CHAPTER 465.
(House Bill 484)

AN ACT to add ten new sections to Article 101 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition and 1935 Supple-
ment), title "Workmen's Compensation", to be under sub-
title "Occupational Diseases", said new sections to be known
as Sections 32A to 32J, inclusive, and to follow immediately
after Section 32 of said Article, and to repeal and re-enact
with amendments Section 54 of said Article, sub-title
"Claims and Compensation; Benefits", Section 56 of said
Article, sub-title "Appeals", and Section 65 of said Article,
sub-title "Miscellaneous", providing that occupational dis-
eases as defined therein shall be compensable under the
Workmen's Compensation Act, enumerating the occupational
diseases covered, creating a Medical Board to hear and pass
upon cases involving medical questions as to occupational
diseases and prescribing its duties and powers, relating to
appeals in cases involving occupational diseases, providing
that "injury", "personal injury", and "accidental personal
injury" shall include the occupational diseases enumerated
and assigning to the State Department of Health and to the
Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City duties and pow-
ers for the control and prevention of occupational diseases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ~by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That ten new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 101 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition
and 1935 Supplement), title "Workmen's Compensation", to
be under sub-title "Occupational Diseases", said new sections
to be known as Sections 32A to 32J inclusive, to follow imme-
diately after Section 32 of said Article, and that Section 54 of
said Article, sub-title "Claims and Compensation; Benefits",
Section 56 of said Article, sub-title "Appeals", and Section 65
of said Article "Miscellaneous", be and they are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments, all to read as follows:

Occupational Diseases.

32A. Every employee who, in the regular course of his em-
ployment, is injuriously subjected to an exposure to any of
the occupational diseases hereinafter named, in an occupation
or process hereinafter set down opposite the name of such
disease, shall be deemed to be engaged in an extra-hazardous
employment within the provisions of Section 32 of this Article.
Compensation as provided in this Article shall be payable for
disability or death of an employee resulting from the following
occupational diseases: