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October 21 of each year.

(c) (1) In Kent and Queen Anne's counties only a
riparian owner owning the required amount of shoreline,
his lessee, licensee, or assignee, may erect and maintain
a stationary blind or blind site, if he applies before
October 11 of each year.

(2) A RESIDENT WHO APPLIES FOR A LICENSE FOR A
STATIONARY BLIND OR BLIND SITE IN THE WATER [[IN FRONT
OF]] ADJACENT TO BLOODSWORTH ISLAND IN DORCHESTER COUNTY
IS NOT REQUIRED TO OBTAIN WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE
RIPARIAN OWNER.

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

Approved May 31, 1974.

CHAPTER 628
(Senate Bill 580)
AN ACT concerning

Nursing Homes — Patients Bill of Rights

FOR the purpose of establishing rights of patients and
residents of nursing homes.

BY adding to

Article 43 - Health

Section 565C

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 565C be and it is hereby added
to Article 43 — Health, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) to read as
follows:

Article 43 - Health
565C.