1694                                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                            [Ch. 444

emergency Act.
BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 7-201[[(a)]]
Annotated Code of Maryland
([[1973]] 1974 Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 7-201[[{a)]] of Article - Courts
and Judicial Proceedings, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland ([[1973]] 1974 Volume) be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings
7-201.

(a) [[Payment of fee required.]]

Except for an appeal from [an administrative
agency or civil appeal from the district court,] THE
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION, OR AN APPEAL, BY AN
INDIVIDUAL CLAIMING BENEFITS, FROM A DECISION OF THE

BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY

ADMINISTRATION, no case at law or in equity may be
docketed and no writ of attachment, fieri facias, or
execution on judgment may be issued unless the plaintiff
or appellant pays a fee as set forth in §§ 7—202 and
7-203.

[[SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this
Act shall take effect July 1, 1974.]]

(b)[A] THE CIRCUIT court shall pass an order
waiving the payment IN ADVANCE if:

(1)    Upon petition for waiver, it is satisfied that
the petitioner is unable by reason of his poverty to make
the payment; and

(2)    The petitioner's attorney, if any, certifies
that the suit, appeal, or writ is meritorious.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay