700 LAWS OF MARYLAND Ch. 301
(b) The Commission, upon receiving a report from the rehabilitation evaluation
agency, shall promptly notify all parties of the contents of [such] THE report.
Any party in interest may within ten (10) days from the date of issuance of [such]
THE report, request a hearing to controvert the report. At [such] THE hearing,
the parties may present [such] additional evidence as [is deemed] necessary.
Following the hearing, the Commission shall make a decision accepting or
rejecting in whole or in part the vocational rehabilitation agency report and [shall
further] issue an appropriate order regarding vocational rehabilitation of the
employee.
(c) During the period an employee is undergoing vocational rehabilitation
training, he shall be entitled to compensation as if he were temporarily totally
disabled.
(d) Any employee undergoing vocational rehabilitation training in the course of
which he is required to live at a location other than his home, shall also be entitled
to receive in addition to the temporary total compensation provided for herein,
sufficient funds to adequately maintain himself during [such] THE period of
vocational rehabilitation training, but in no case to exceed forty dollars per week.
The maintenance so provided shall be at the expense of the employer and insurer.
(E) TRANSPORTATION COSTS TO AND FROM THE PLACE OF
TRAINING ARE NOT RE-IMBURSABLE TO A CLAIMANT RESIDING
AT HOME DURING VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION TRAINING,
EXCEPT THAT THE COMMISSION MAY ALLOW REASONABLE
TRANSPORTATION COSTS IN UNUSUAL CASES.
[(e)](F) If an employee refuses to accept vocational rehabilitation training,
pursuant to an order of the Commission, and the Commission determines [,such]
THE refusal to be unreasonable, all payments of compensation for temporary total
disability shall be forfeited during the period of [such] refusal.
[(f)](G) This subsection shall apply only to injuries occurring on or after July
1, 1968.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.
Approved May 7, 1973.
CHAPTER 302
(House Bill 441)
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 78(a) of Article 56 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses,"
subtitle "Private Detectives," to increase the fees for the issuance of a license to
certain persons under the laws relating to private detectives and to provide a fee
for renewal of such a license.
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 78(a) of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Private
Detectives," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:
|