670                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                    [CH. 213

employees, and to exempt places of employment covered by provi-
sions of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 52 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Supplement), title "Work, Labor and Employment," subtitle
"Hours of Labor for Females," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

52.

No female shall be employed or permitted to work in any [manu-
facturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing, baking or laundering
establishment] employment or place of employment more than ten
hours in any one day, nor more than sixty hours in any one week,

nor more than six days in any one week, nor shall any female be

employed or permitted to work more than six hours continuously
at any one time [in any of the aforesaid establishments in which
three or more such persons are employed,] without an interval of,
at least, a half hour, except that such female may be so employed
for not more than six and a half hours continuously at one time, if
she shall not be permitted to work during the remainder of the day
in her said employment. Provided, further, that the invalidity of any
portion of this subtitle, shall in no way affect the validity of any
portion thereof, which can be given effect, without such invalid part.
But the provisions of this section shall not apply to females employed
in the canning or preserving, or preparing for canning or preserving
perishable fruit and vegetables. [And provided further that in any
retail mercantile establishments located outside of the City of Balti-
more a female may be permitted to work on Saturdays and on
Christmas Eve and the five working days next preceding Christmas
Eve not more than twelve hours, if during each of such Saturdays
and Christmas Eve and five days aforesaid the female so employed
shall have at least two rest intervals of not less than one hour each,
and this provision shall only apply to such mercantile establishments
as have during the remainder of the calendar year a working day
of not more than nine hours.] This section shall not apply to the
scheduling of work when a bona fide collective bargaining agree-
ment is in effect [.] nor shall it apply to places of employment meet-
ing the wage, overtime, and record keeping requirements of the
Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, nor shall it apply to females
employed in professional, executive, administrative or managerial
capacities.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.

CHAPTER 213
(Senate Bill 270)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12F (b)
of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Supple-