1836                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 829

Article 43
149A.

(a)  All records, reports, statements, notes, and other information
which have been assembled or procured by the Medical and Chirurgi-
cal Faculty or any of its allied medical societies or any in-hospital
staff committee or any national organized medical societies or
research groups for purposes of research and study and which name
or otherwise identify any person or persons are confidential records
within the custody and control of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty
or any of its allied medical societies or any in-hospital staff committee
or any national organized medical societies or research groups, their
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 Medical and Chirurgical Faculty or any of its allied
medical societies or any in-hospital staff committee or any national
organized medical societies or research groups, 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 ($50.00).

(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 publi-
cizing 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 corpora-
tion furnishing to the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty or any of its
allied medical societies or any in-hospital staff committee or any
national organized medical societies or research groups, or any of
their authorized agents or employees, for purposes of research and
study, any of the records, reports, statements, notes, or other in-
formation described in Section 149A 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.