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BLIND PERSONS

20A.

(A) It is unlawful for an owner or operator of a place of public
accommodation or an agent or employee of said owner or operator,
because of the blindness of any person, to refuse, withhold from,
or deny to such person any of the accommodations, advantages,
facilities and privileges of such place of public accommodation. For
the purpose of this subtitle, a place of public accommodation means
any hotel, restaurant, inn, motel or an establishment commonly
known or recognized as regularly engaged in the business of provid-
ing sleeping accommodations, or serving food, or both, for a con-
sideration, and which is open to the general public. When any blind
person, seeking admission to a place of public accommodation for
himself and his guide dog DOG GUIDE properly identifies himself
and has his guide dog DOG GUIDE on leash both dog and master
shall be admitted.

(b) Any person violating subsection (a) hereof, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
more than $50.00.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1964.

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 138
(House Bill 17)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the aggregate
amount of Seventy five Million Dollars ($75,000,000) FIFTY MIL-
LION DOLLARS ($50,000,000) for the purpose of aiding in the
financing of certain loans to be made to voluntary non-profit hos-
pitals for the construction, expansion, relocation, replacement or
modernization of their hospital buildings, facilities and equip-
ment; providing generally for the terms and conditions of creating
this debt and for expending funds thereunder; providing generally
for the issue and sale of certificates evidencing this loan; and pro-
viding for the commitment of the political subdivision in which a
hospital or proposed hospital is located, SAID POLITICAL SUB-
DIVISION TO INCLUDE ONLY A COUNTY OR COUNTIES
OR BALTIMORE CITY, to indemnify the State of Maryland in the
event of any default in such a loan; and to add new Sections 568A to
568G, inclusive, to Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition and 1963 Supplement), title "Health", subtitle "Hos-
pitals", to follow immediately after Section 568 thereof, and to be
under the new subheading "Maryland Hospital Commission", creat-
ing in Maryland a Hospital Commission to administer the lending of
the monies wherever referred to; providing generally for the mem-
bership, staff, powers and duties of this Commission; relating to
the powers and duties of certain other State officials and agencies
in relation to this program; establishing procedures and criteria