Ch. 651                              MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1355

and 1972 Supplement), title "Unemployment Insurance Law," subtitle
"Definitions," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

20.

(g)(8) With respect to services performed after December 31, 1940, the term
"employment" shall not include:

(vii) Service performed by an individual in the employ of his son, daughter,
or spouse, and service performed by a child under the age of [twenty-one]
EIGHTEEN in the employ of his father or mother;

SECTION 48. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 1-103 of
Article 95B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title
"Uniform Commercial Code," subtitle "Subtitle I. General Provisions,"
subheading "Short Title, Construction, Application and Subject Matter of the
Article," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

1-103.

Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this article, the principles of law
and equity, including the law merchant and the law relative to capacity to contract,
principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake,
bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating cause shall supplement its
provisions, EXCEPT THAT THE AGE OF MAJORITY AS IT PERTAINS TO
THE CAPACITY TO CONTRACT IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND
NO PERSON WHO HAS ATTAINED THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS
SHALL BE CONSIDERED TO BE WITHOUT CAPACITY BY REASON OF
AGE, AND THE LEGAL DEFENSE OF MINORITY MAY ONLY BE
ASSERTED BY A PERSON UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE.

SECTION 49. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 2 of Article
100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and 1972
Supplement), title "Work, Labor and Employment," subtitle "Hours of Work in
Factories," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

2.

Any such named corporation or manufacturing company within the limits of
this State shall be allowed, under the provisions of this section, the privilege of
working employees, over the age of [twenty-one] EIGHTEEN years over the limit
of ten hours for the express purpose only of making repairs and improvements and
getting fires made, steam up and the machinery ready for use in their works, which
cannot be done during the limit of the ten hours; the extra compensation for all
such work to be settled between such corporation and manufacturing companies
and the employees; provided that nothing in this article shall be so construed as to
prohibit any employer from making a contract with his employees, over the age of
[twenty-one] EIGHTEEN years, to work by the hour for such time as may be
agreed upon.

SECTION 50. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections 21(b),
36(l)(c) and (4)(c), and 47 of Article 101 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Workmen's
Compensation," subtitles "Application of Article; Extra-hazardous Employments,"
and "Claims and Compensation; Benefits," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: