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certain instances where religion or national origin is a bona fide
occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal opera-
tion of that particular business or enterprise, and (2) it shall not
be an unlawful employment practice for a school, college, university,
or other educational institution or institution of learning to hire and
employ employees of a particular religion if such school, college,
university, or other educational institution or institution of learning
is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or
managed by a particular religion or by a particular religious corpora-
tion, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, col-
lege, university, or other educational institution or institution of
learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular religion;

(h) nothing contained in this subtitle shall be interpreted to re-
quire any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint
labor-management committee subject to this subtitle to grant pref-
erential treatment to any individual or to any group because of the
race, color, creed, or national origin of such individual or group on
account of an imbalance which may exist with respect to the total
number or percentage of persons of any race, color, creed, or national
origin employed by any employer, referred or classified for employ-
ment by any employment agency or labor organization, admitted
to membership or classified by any labor organization, or admitted
to, or employed in, any apprenticeship or other training program,
in comparison with the total number or percentage of persons of
such race, color, creed, or national origin in any community, State,
section, or other area, or in the available work force in any com-
munity, State, section, or other area.

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THIS ACT SHALL NOT APPLY TO AN EMPLOYER WITH RE-
SPECT TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF ALIENS OUTSIDE OF THE
STATE, OR TO A RELIGIOUS CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION,
OR SOCIETY WITH RESPECT TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF IN-
DIVIDUALS OF A PARTICULAR RELIGION TO PERFORM
WORK CONNECTED WITH THE CARRYING ON BY SUCH
CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION OR SOCIETY OF ITS RE-
LIGIOUS ACTIVITIES OR TO AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITU-
TION WITH RESPECT TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF INDI-
VIDUALS TO PERFORM WORK CONNECTED WITH THE
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF SUCH INSTITUTION.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965 JULY 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 718
(House Bill 136)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 116 (1) (d)
of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1962 Supple-
ment 1957 EDITION), title "Public Education," subtitle "Chap-
ter 8. Teachers' Certificates, Salaries and Pensions," subheading