352                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 154

CHAPTER 153
(Senate Bill 433)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 6 (e) of
Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Unemployment Insurance Law", sub-title
"Benefits", providing that a person unemployed due to a work
stoppage because of a labor dispute shall not be disqualified for
unemployment benefits where the stoppage is not voluntary on the
part of the employee. "BENEFITS", PROVIDING THAT A PER-
SON UNEMPLOYED DUE TO A LOCKOUT SHALL NOT BE
DISQUALIFIED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 6 (e) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Replacement Volume), title "Unemployment Insurance
Law", sub-title "Benefits", be and it is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, with amendments, to read as follows:

6.

(e) For any week with respect to which the Executive Director
finds that his unemployment is due to a stoppage of work , OTHER
THAN A LOCKOUT, which exists because of a labor dispute at the
factory, establishment, or other premises at which he is or was last

employed, which stoppage is in the nature of a strike and not in the

nature of a lookout, shutdown at the instance of the employer, or
otherwise involuntary on the part of the workers, provided that this
subsection shall not apply if it is shown to the satisfaction of the
Executive Director that—

(1)   He is not participating in or financing or directly interested
in the labor dispute which caused the stoppage of work; and

(2)   He does not belong to a grade or class of workers of which,
immediately before the commencement of the stoppage, there were
members employed at the premises at which the stoppage occurs, any
of whom are participating in or financing or directly interested in the
dispute; provided, that if in any case separate branches of work
which are commonly conducted as separate businesses in separate
premises are conducted in separate departments of the same prem-
ises, each such department shall, for the purposes of this subsection,
be deemed to be a separate factory, establishment, or other premises.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 14, 1966.

CHAPTER 154
(Senate Bill 443)

AN ACT to add new Section 211-M to Article 89B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title "State
Roads", subtitle "Expenditure of Commission's Funds and Pro-