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APPEAR to the Court [for] of Appeals upon petition of any party,
including the State, that a review is desirable and in the public
interest, the Court of Appeals shall require, by certiorari or other-
wise, any such case to be certified to the Court of Appeals for its
review and determination, except no such petition shall be enter-
tained by the Court of Appeals from the denying or granting by
the Court of Special Appeals of an application for leave to prosecute
an appeal in post conviction and defective delinquent proceedings
and from the denying or granting by the Court of Special Appeals
of a petition for review filed under Section 21 of this article.

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

Approved April 23, 1971.

CHAPTER 110
(House Bill 48)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 18 of
Article 57 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Supplement),
title "Limitation of Actions," to provide that in Howard County
written notice of claims against the county must be presented
within ninety ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY days after the
injury, and requiring that the notice be presented to the County
Executive.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 18 of Article 57 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1970 Supplement), title "Limitation of Actions," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

18.

(a)(l) No action shall be maintained and no claim shall be
allowed against any municipal corporation or against any of the
counties enumerated in this subsection for unliquidated damages for
any injury or damage to person or property unless within the times
specified in this section after the injury or damage was sustained,
written notice thereof setting forth the time, place or cause of the
alleged damage, loss, injury or death shall be presented either in
person or by registered mail by the claimant, his agent or attorney,
or in the case of death, by his executor or administrator, to the
county commissioners, county council, the corporate authorities of
the municipal corporation or the city solicitor of Baltimore City,
as the case may be. In Montgomery County and Howard County,
such written notice shall be presented to the county executive.

(2) The provisions of this subsection shall be applicable within
Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Frederick,
Harford, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's,
St. Mary's, Washington, Wicomico and Worcester counties.