938 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 498

amendments, and new Sections 17A and 19A be and they
are hereby added to said Article, said new Sections to fol-
low immediately after Sections 17 and 19 thereof, re-
spectively, and all to read as follows:

8. Remedies of a State or Political Subdivision Thereof
Furnishing Support.

Whenever the state or a political subdivision thereof has
furnished support to an obligee it shall have the same right
to invoke the provisions hereof as the obligee to whom the
support was furnished for the purpose of securing re-
imbursement of expenditures so made and of obtaining con-
tinuing support.

10. Contents of Petition for Support.

The petition shall be verified and shall state the name
and, so far as known to the petitioner, the address and cir-
cumstances of the obligor and his or her dependents for
whom support is sought and all other pertinent informa-
tion. The petitioner may include in or attach to the petition
any information which may help in locating or identifying
the obligor including, but without limitation by enumera-
tion, a photograph of the obligor, a description of any dis-
tinguishing marks of his person, other names and aliases by
which he has been or is known, the name of his employer,
his finger prints, or social security number.

11. Duty of Court of this State as Initiating State.

(a) If the Court of this State acting as an initiating state
finds that the petition sets forth facts from which it may
be determined that the respondent owes a duty of support
and that a court of the responding state may obtain juris-
diction of the defendant or his property, the court shall so
certify and shall cause certified copies of the petition, the
certificate and [an authenticated copy of] this Article to be
transmitted to the Court of the responding State. // the
name and address of such court is unknown and the re-
sponding state has an information agency comparable to
that established in the initiating state, it shall cause such
copies to be transmitted to the state information agency or
other proper official of the responding state, with a request
that it forward them to the proper court, and that the
court of the responding state acknowledge their receipt to
the court of the initiating state.

(b) In the event the petitioner makes oath that she is
without sufficient funds to obtain personal counsel it shall