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any criminal prosecution of a licensee for operation, pending
a final decision in the case appealed from and also to suspend
the operation of any injunction for operating without a
license, pending a final disposition of such appeal. While the
matter is pending before a Court, the care, custody and
control of a minor or minors exercised by the institution,
agency, society or person authorized to make a placement
[individual, or sets of individuals] aggrieved by the decision
of the State Department, shall be in the discretion of the
Court.

16K. (Reciprocity.) The State Department is authorized
to recognize and deal with any institution, agency, or society,
[individuals or set of individuals] licensed or recognized by
another state for the care or placement of minors, if that
state extends the same recognition and reciprocal relations to
licensees under this sub-title.

16M. (Penalty.) Any institution, agency, society, indi-
viduals, husband and wife acting jointly, or set of individuals
who assume or exercise the care, custody, or control of
minors, unrelated by Mood or marriage, or who place such
minors for adoption, or otherwise, in violation of the pro-
visions of this sub-title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine not to exceed
[one] five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for not to
exceed '[three months] one- year, in the discretion of the
court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 16H of
said Article 88A be and it is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1950.

Approved March 28, 1950.

CHAPTER 64
(House Bill 3)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 19
of Article 17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1947

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