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Article 43
1-1.

(a)  All records, reports, statements, notes, and other information
which have been assembled or procured by the State Board of
Health and Mental Hygiene for purposes of research and study and
which name or otherwise identify any person or persons are con-
fidential records within the custody and control of the Board and
its authorized agents and employees, and may be used only for the
purposes of research and study for which assembled or procured.

(b)   It is unlawful for any person to give away or otherwise to
disclose to a person or persons not engaged in such research and
study for the Board, any of such records, reports, statements, notes,
or other information which name or otherwise identify any person
or persons. Any person who violates any provision of this subtitle
is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not
more than fifty dollars ($50).

(c)   Access to and use of any such records, reports, statements,
notes, or other information also are protected and regulated by the
provisions of Section 101 of Article 35 and of Section 10 of Article
75C of this Code.

(d)  Nothing in this section applies to or restricts the use or
publicizing of statistics, data, or other material which summarize
or refer to any such records, reports, statements, notes, or other
information in the aggregate and without referring to or disclosing
the identity of any individual person or persons.

Article 75C
HEALTH AND MENTAL RESEARCH

10. No action may be brought against any person, firm or corpo-
ration furnishing to the State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene,
or any of its authorized agents or employees, for purposes of re-
search and study, any of the records, reports, statements, notes, or
other information described in Section 1-1 of Article 43 of this Code.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved May 6, 1963.

CHAPTER 827
(House Bill 202)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 262, 266 and 269 of Article 56 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1962 Supplement, hereinafter re-
ferred to as "the Code"), title "Licenses," subtitle "Home-Improve-
ment Law"; to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
249(c), 252, 255(b), 256, 257(f), 258, 259, and 261 (b), (C) AND
(D) of said Article and subtitle of the Code and to renumber certain
of these sections; to add new Section 258 to said Article and subtitle
of the Code, to follow immediately after Section 257 thereof; and to