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(7)  An employer who transfers all or part of his operations from
another state to this State and has had, in that other state, for a
period of not less than three (3) years immediately preceding the
transfer, the experience with benefit charges and payrolls which is
required by subsection (c) (3) shall be deemed to have met the
requirements of that subsection for variance from the standard
rate, provided the employer shall make application to the Executive
Director for that treatment effective upon the transfer. The applica-
tion shall include such information as will enable the Executive
Director to establish an employer's benefit ratio for that employer
in the manner prescribed by subsection (c) (4) as if the benefit
charges and payrolls in another state had been paid in this State.
The application shall also be verified in whatever manner as is satis-
factory to the Executive Director.

(8)  In the event that it is determined by the Executive Director
that an individual has received benefits which are recoverable by
the Executive Director under the terms of Sections 17 (d) or 17
(e) of this article, the benefits so received shall not, for the purposes
of the experience-rating provisions of this subsection, be charged
against the account of any employer in any computation made for
any fiscal year commencing after the date of said determination by
the Executive Director, provided no benefit charges shall be removed
from the employer's account if the payment of such benefits was
made as a direct or indirect result of the employer's failure to pro-
vide information to the Executive Director as required by this
article or the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

Benefits paid to claimants based upon wages earned in a work
release program designed to give an inmate of a correctional institu-
tion an opportunity to work while serving a term of incarceration
shall be treated as benefits for all purposes under this article except
that benefits resulting from unemployment due to termination of
the inmate's services to a participating employer in a work-release
program shall not be charged to such employer if the termination
was caused by the inmate's release from prison.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved April 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 116

(Senate Bill 849)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 98, 99,
and 100, inclusive, of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1971 Supplement), title "Conveyancing," subtitle "Defective
Conveyances," to provide for validation of deeds without clerk's
certificate as to justice or lacking seal of foreign notary, valida-
tion of certain acknowledgments or deeds not properly witnessed
or sealed or made before bonus tax paid, validation of certain
assignments of mortgages all as of July 1, 1972, and correcting
an error therein.