SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1067

CHAPTER 467
(Senate Bill 312)

AN ACT to make provision for the retirement payments to be made
to certain former bailiffs in Baltimore City under Section 295 (a)
of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949
Edition, being Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Baltimore City," subtitle "Criers, Bailiffs, Watch-
men, and Stenographers," as last amended by Chapter 610 of the
Acts of 1966.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the retirement payments in the amount of fifteen hundred dol-
lars per annum, being paid to certain former bailiffs in Baltimore
City under Section 295 (a) of the Charter and Public Local Laws of
Baltimore City (1949 Edition, being Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland), title "Baltimore City," subtitle "Criers,
Bailiffs, Watchmen, and Stenographers," as last amended by Chapter
610 of the Acts of 1966, shall be increased, as to those former bailiffs
who served as such in excess of ten years, to the amount of two
thousand dollars per annum, from and after July 1, 1967.; PRO-
VIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE ADDITIONAL RETIREMENT
PAYMENTS PROVIDED HEREIN SHALL BE MADE ONLY TO
BAILIFFS WHO HAD RETIRED PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1967
AND WHO WERE IN RECEIPT OF RETIREMENT PAYMENTS
AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ACT.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 468
(Senate Bill 315)

AN ACT to add new Section 149D to Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition, 1965 Replacement Volume), title
"Health", subtitle "Practitioners of Medicine", to follow immedi-
ately after Section 149 C thereof, relating to granting to minors
who are, or who profess to be either married, pregnant or afflicted
with a venereal disease, the power and legal capacity to give
effective and valid legal consent to the provision of medical or
surgical care or services by a hospital, public clinic, or the per-
formance of medical or surgical care or services by a physician
licensed to practice medicine either to such minors or to any
child of such minors, the infancy of such minors and contrary
provisions of law notwithstanding, and providing that such con-
sent shall not be subject to later disaffirmance by reason of such
minority, and providing that the consent of no other person or
persons shall be necessary to authorize such medical care or serv-
ices, and directing that the hospital, public clinic, or physician
licensed to practice medicine may or may not, in the sole discretion
of the hospital or clinic staff or the physician as the case may be,