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shall be declared illegal, unconstitutional or in any way invalid by any
Court of competent jurisdiction, the zoning category, applicable to the
property re-zoned by such resolution shall revert back to the category
applicable prior to the passage of such resolution, and such resolu-
tion shall be null and void and of no effect whatsoever.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 472
(House Bill 207)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 78, 79, and 80 of Article 100 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title
"Work, Labor and Employment," subtitle "Discrimination," and to
enact new Sections 78, 79, 80, 80A, 80B, 80C, 80D, and 80E AND
80F in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the sections repealed, to
make unlawful discrimination because of age in employment
practices, and penalties for violation thereof.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 78, 79, 80 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title "Work, Labor and Em-
ployment," subtitle "Discrimination," be and they are hereby re-
pealed and that new Sections 78, 79, 80, 80A, 80B, 80C, 80D, and
80E AND 80F be and they are hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to stand
in the place of the sections repealed and to read as follows:

78.

(a)    It shall be unlawful for an employer—

(1)    to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or
otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his
compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, be-
cause of such individual's age; or

(2)    to limit, segregate, or classify his employees in any way
which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employ-
ment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an
employee, because of such individual's age.

(b)    It shall be unlawful for an employment agency to fail or
refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate against,
any individual because of such individual's age, or to classify or
refer for employment any individual on the basis of such individual's
age.

(c)    It shall be unlawful for a labor organization—

(1)    to exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise
to discriminate against, any individual because of his age;

(2)    to limit, segregate, or classify its membership, or to classify
or fail or refuse to refer for employment any individual, in any way