102 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 86

Article or other provisions of the criminal law of this or
some other jurisdiction.

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10. No subversive person, as denned in this Article, shall
be eligible for employment in, or appointment to any office,
or any position of trust or profit in the government of, or
in the administration of the business of this State, or of
any county, municipality, or other political sub-division of
this State.

11. Every person and every board, commission, council,
department, court or other agency of the State of Mary-
land or any political sub-division thereof, who or which
appoints or employs or supervises in any manner the ap-
pointment or employment of public officials or employees
shall establish by rules, regulations or otherwise, proced-
ures designed to ascertain before any person, including
teachers and other employees of any public educational
institution in this State, is appointed or employed, that
he or she as the case may be, is not a subversive person,
and that there are no reasonable grounds to believe such
persons are subversive persons. In the event such reasonable
grounds exist, he or she as the case may be shall not be
appointed or employed. In securing any facts necessary to
ascertain the information herein required, the applicant
shall be required to sign a written statement containing
answers to such inquiries as may be material, which state-
ment shall contain notice that it is subject to the penalties
of perjury.

12. The inquiries prescribed in Section 11, other than
the written statement to be executed by an applicant for
employment, shall not be required as a prerequisite to the
employment of any persons in the classification of laborers
in any case in which the employing authority shall in his
or its discretion determine, and by rule or regulation specify
the reasons why, the nature of the work to be performed is
such that employment of persons as to whom there may be
reasonable grounds to believe that they are subversive per-
sons as defined in this Article will not be dangerous to the
health of the citizens or the security of the Governments
of the United States, the State of Maryland, or any politi-
cal sub-division thereof.

13. Every person, who on June 1, 1949 shall be in the
employ of the State of Maryland or of any political sub-