34                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                                   Ch. 5

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 58 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Work, Labor
and Employment," subtitle "Compulsory Work Law," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendment, and to make a correction therein, and to read as
follows:

58.

After the issuance of the proclamation hereinbefore provided for, it shall be the
duty of the sheriffs of the respective counties and of the police department of
Baltimore City, and of any other officer, State, county or municipal, charged with
enforcing the law, to seek and to continue to seek diligently the names and places
of residence of able-bodied [male] persons within their respective jurisdictions,
between the ages aforesaid, not regularly or continuously employed as aforesaid,
who have failed to register as aforesaid, and to obtain criminal summonses or
warrants for their arrest from any Commissioner of the District Court. Failure of
such persons to register shall be a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine
not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00). The names of all those convicted of failing to
register, together with all other information as aforesaid, shall be sent by the
District Court to the clerks of the circuit courts of the counties or the clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be. The said clerks shall
register as aforesaid all [person] PERSONS convicted of failing to register, and
report such registrations to the Governor as hereinbefore provided. The Governor
shall thereupon assign such persons to work as provided in § 56.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 10, 1973.

CHAPTER 6
(Senate Bill 321)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 306 of Article 48A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1972
Supplement), title "Insurance Code," subtitle "Fraternal Benefit Societies," to
eliminate references to a particular sex and to correct language.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 306 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Insurance
Code," subtitle "Fraternal Benefit Societies," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendmends to read as follows:

306.

(a) Nothing contained in this subtitle shall be so construed as to affect or apply
to:

(1) Grand or subordinate lodges or societies, orders or associations now doing
business in this State which provide benefits exclusively through local or