1320                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 651

Any section, or any part of any section, of the public local or public general
laws of this State inconsistent with this section are hereby repealed to the extent of
such inconsistency.

10.

The Maryland Workshop for the Blind is empowered and authorized to make
agreements and contracts with the owner or lessee of any privately-owned buildings
or premises in this State whereby the Workshop would have authority to issue
licenses to blind persons who are citizens of the United States and at least
[twenty-one] EIGHTEEN years of age, for the operation of vending stands in a
private building or on private premises, for the vending of newspapers, periodicals,
confections, tobacco products and any other articles, except alcoholic beverages.
The construction and location of any such vending stand shall be such as meet the
approval of the owner, lessee or custodian of the building or premises in which or
on which the vending stand is to be located. The Maryland Workshop for the
Blind, subject to the terms of any such agreement or contract, shall have full
supervision and control over the operation of any such vending stand. The
Workshop shall have full discretion as to who shall be placed in charge of each
stand and shall provide the equipment for the vending stand as well as an adequate
initial stock of suitable articles to be vended therefrom.

SECTION 15. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section (6a) of
Article 31B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title
"Defective Delinquents," subtitle "Defective Delinquents," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

6.

(a) For whom requests may be made. - A request may be made that a person be
examined for possible defective delinquency if he has been convicted and sentenced
in a court of this State for a crime or offense committed on or after June 1, 1954,
coming under one or more of the following categories: (1) A felony; (2) a
misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary; (3) a crime of
violence; (4) a sex crime involving: (a) Physical force or violence, (b) disparity of
age between an adult and a [minor] PERSON UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS
OF AGE, or (c) a sexual act of an uncontrolled and/or repetitive nature; (5) two
or more convictions for any offenses or crimes punishable by imprisonment, in a
criminal court of this State. A person convicted and sentenced for a crime or
offense within one of the categories listed above in this subsection, except that such
crime or offense was committed before June 1, 1954, shall be subject to this article
with the same effect as if said crime or offense had been committed after June 1,
1954, if after said date such person is adjudged to have broken the terms of any
parole or probation on which he has been released from said sentence.

SECTION 16. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 5(a) of
Article 32 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title
"Dentistry," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

5.

(a) Any person of good moral character, [twenty-one] EIGHTEEN or more
years of age, who has been graduated and admitted to the degree of doctor of
dental surgery, doctor of dental medicine, or other equivalent degree by any
university or college duly incorporated and authorized to grant said degree by the
laws of the United States or any of its territories, districts or possessions, or by the
laws of any state of the United States, or the laws of any province of the