1938                             Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 680

98A.

(a)  Principals and teachers in every public elementary and sec-
ondary school in this State may intervene in any fight or physical
struggle which takes place in their presence in school buildings or
on school grounds, between or among students or any other persons.
The degree and force of the intervention may SHALL be as reason-
ably necessary to restore order and to protect the safety of the com-
batants and surrounding persons.

(b)  A principal or teacher who incurs injury while thus inter-
vening shall be compensated by the county board of education or
Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, as the case may be,
for necessary medical expenses resulting directly from the inter-
vention, and he shall not suffer any loss of compensation for time
lost from his school duties resulting directly from the intervention,
but such compensation shall be reduced by any payments made pur-
suant to the Workmen's Compensation Law.

(c)  In any suit or claim brought against the principal or teacher
because of the intervention, AS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBSECTION
(A) HEREIN by a parent or other claimant of one of the com-
batants, the county board of education or Baltimore City Board of
School Commissioners as the case may be, shall provide legal counsel
for the principal or teacher and shall save him harmless from any
award or decree against him. , compensating him fully for the

amount of the award or decree.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS ACT
SHALL BE NULL AND VOID AND OF NO FURTHER EFFECT
IN THE EVENT OF THE ENACTMENT OF CHAPTER . OF
THE ACTS OF 1970 (SENATE BILL NO. 646).

Sec. 2. 3. And be it further enacted, That , SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2 OF THIS ACT, this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1970.

Approved May 21, 1970.

CHAPTER 680
(Senate Bill 610)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 210E (a)
AND SECTIONS 210-I (B) AND (D) of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Wicomico County (1965 Edition, being Article 23 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Wicomico County,"
subtitle "People's Court of Wicomico County," as added, last
amended by Chapter 750 of the Acts of 1966; to increase the
salary of the chief judge of the People's Court of Wicomico
County. AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE DESIGNATION AND
COMPENSATION OF THE SEVERAL COMMITTING MAGIS-
TRATES OF THE PEOPLE'S COURT OF WICOMICO COUNTY.