MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1719

hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 59A — Mental Retardation

4.

(A)    Specific jurisdiction with regard to
administration and supervision of the care, custody and
treatment of the mentally retarded shall be delegated to
the Mental Retardation Administration which shall be a
part of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene of
the State.

(B)    THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS
SECTION SHALL NOT PREVENT MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS FROM
BEING ELIGIBLE FOR FOSTER CARE, NOR SHALL THEY PREVENT
THE SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION OR ANY LOCAL
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FROM PROVIDING ASSISTANCE
WITH RESPECT TO THE PLACEMENT OF MENTALLY RETARDED
PERSONS IN FOSTER CARE.

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

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 460
(House Bill 641)
AN ACT concerning

Credit Life and Health Insurance — Definitions

FOR the purpose of changing the definition of "debtor" as
it applies to the credit life and health insurance
provisions of the Insurance Code.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments.

Article 48A — Insurance Code

Section 436C (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 436C (c) of Article 48A -