694                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 403

Section 1. Be it enacted by, the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 75 of Article 75 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1965 Replacement Volume), title "Pleadings, Practice and Process
at Law," subtitle "Process," be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

75.

(a)    No person shall be sued out of the county in which he resides
until the sheriff or coroner of the county in which he resides shall
have returned a non est on a summons issued in such county; pro-
vided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any person who
shall abscond from justice in the county where he lives but such
person may be sued in any county where he may be found; and
provided further, that any person who resides in one county, but
carries on any regular business, or habitually engaged in any voca-
tion or employment in another county, may be sued in either
county, whether before a justice of the peace or in a court of law
or equity; this section not to apply to ejectment, dower, replevin,
scire facias on judgment or decree, nor to heirs, devisees or terre-
tenants, against whom process may be issued to another county.

(b)    In any action ex delicto in which all the defendants are not
residents of, nor carrying on regular business in, or habitually en-
gaged in any avocation VOCATION or employment in one county, the
plaintiff may, at his election, sue all said defendants in the county
where the cause of action arose or sue all of the said defendants in the
county where any one of the defendants [reside] resides, carries on a
regular business or is habitually engaged in any avocation VOCA-
TION or employment. As used in this section the term "county" in-
cludes "Baltimore City."

(c)    In any action ex delicto based upon negligence, the plain-
tiff at his election may sue the defendant or defendants in the
county where the cause of action arose.

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

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 403
(House Bill 387)

AN ACT to add new Section 73F to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Charles County (1959 Edition and 1964 Supplement, being
Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title
"Charles County," subtitle "County Commissioners," to follow im-
mediately after Section 73E thereof, as added by Chapter 392 of
the Acts of 1965, and to be under the new subheading "Scholar-
ships for Nurses and Technicians"; establishing and providing
generally for a program of scholarships for training in nursing
and other hospital and medical occupations, in Charles County, to
be administered by the County Commissioners of Charles County.