1630                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 758

98B.

Irrespective of any by-law, rule or regulation made or approved by
the State Board of Education, nothing shall prohibit the use of
corporal punishment by a principal, OR vice-principal, or teacher in
the county school system in Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's
and Talbot counties. CAROLINE, CECIL, DORCHESTER, KENT,
QUEEN ANNE'S, SOMERSET, WICOMICO, WORCESTER AND
TALBOT ALLEGANY, ANNE ARUNDEL, CAROLINE, CECIL,
CHARLES, DORCHESTER, GARRETT, HARFORD, KENT,
QUEEN ANNE'S, SOMERSET, TALBOT, WASHINGTON, WI-
COMICO AND WORCESTER COUNTIES. THE BOARD OF EDU-
CATION OF EACH OF THE HEREIN NAMED COUNTIES MAY
ESTABLISH RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE
USE OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THEIR RESPECTIVE
COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 28, 1971.

CHAPTER 758
(Senate Bill 201)

AN ACT to repeal Section 135 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1970 Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Prac-
titioners of Medicine," and to enact new Section 135 in lieu thereof,
to stand in the place of the section repealed, to provide that, in
certain circumstances, a minor shall have the same capacity to
consent to medical treatment as an adult.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 135 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1970 Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Practitioners of Medi-
cine," be and it is hereby repealed and that a new Section 135 be
enacted to read as follows:

135.

[(a) The consent to the provision of medical or surgical care or
services by a hospital, public clinic, or the performance of medical
or surgical care or services by a physician, licensed to practice medi-
cine, when executed by a minor who is or professes to be married,
or by a female minor who is, or professes to be pregnant, or by a
minor who is or professes to be afflicted with a venereal disease,
shall be valid and binding as if the minor had achieved his or her
majority, as the case may be; that is, a minor who is or professes
to be married, or a female minor who is, or professes to be pregnant,
or a minor who is or professes to be afflicted with a venereal disease,
shall be deemed to have and shall have the same legal capacity to
act, and the same legal obligations with regard to the giving of
such consent to a hospital or clinical care or services or medical or
surgical care or services to be provided by a physician licensed to