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of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City or of the Circuit
Court for any County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 5, 1945.

CHAPTER 518.
(Senate Bill 87)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 57 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Limitation of Ac-
tions", said new section to be known as Section 19 and to
follow immediately after Section 18 of said Article, pre-
scribing a period of limitations within which actions for the
recovery of wages, overtime compensation, fees andor pen-
alties may be brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act
of 1938, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
57 of the Annotated Code of Maryland" (1939 Edition), title
"Limitation of Actions", said new section to be known as Sec-
tion 19, to follow immediately after Section 18 of said Article,
and to read as follows:

19. All actions brought by or on behalf of any employee or
employees for the recovery of unpaid minimum wages, unpaid
overtime compensation, fees andor penalties, as the case may
be, under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended,
shall be brought within three years from the time such cause
or causes of action accrued, unless such Fair Labor Standards
Act shall prescribe a different period within which such action
or actions may be brought; provided, however, that all such
subsisting causes of action which accrued more than two years
before June 1, 1945, shall be sued on within one year after
June 1, 1945, unless such Fair Labor Standards Act shall
provide a different period within which such causes of action
may be sued on.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1,. 1945.

Approved April 5, 1945.