2120                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [Ch. 332

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 333
(Senate Bill 539)

AN ACT concerning

Sex Discrimination — Employment

FOR the purpose of removing the provision which permits
sex—based dress codes and grooming standards in the
law pertaining to unlawful employment practices.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 49B — Human Relations Commission

Section 19(g)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 19(g) of Article 49B - Human
Relations Commission, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article 49B — Human Relations Commission

19.

(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
subtitle, (1) it is not an unlawful employment practice
for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an
employment agency to classify, or refer for employment
any individual, for a labor organization to classify its
membership or to classify or refer for employment any
individual, or for an employer, labor organization or
joint labor—management committee controlling
apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs
to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on
the basis of his religion, national origin or physical or
mental qualification in those instances where sex, age,
religion, national origin or physical or mental
qualification is a bona fide occupational qualification
reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that
particular business or enterprise; (2) it is not an