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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 340

Article 88A — Social Services Administration

Section 5A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 5A of Article 88A - Social
Services Administration, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be
and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 88A — Social Services Administration

5A.

The State Department shall establish a central
registry of records containing all available identifying
information of parents who have deserted or appear to
have deserted, children [who], WHETHER OR NOT THE
CHILDREN are likely, or liable to be, recipients of
public assistance or foster care. To effectuate the
purposes of this section, the State Department may
request and shall receive from departments, boards,
bureaus, commissions, and other agencies of the State or
any of its political subdivisions, and the same are
authorized to provide, such information, assistance and
data as will enable the State Department OR THE STATE'S
ATTORNEY OF THE JURISDICTION INVOLVED to locate these
deserting or absent parents and to enforce their
liability for the support of their children. Any
records established pursuant to the provisions of this
section shall be available only to authorized
representatives of the State and local departments, and
other persons having a right thereto in their official
capacity.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 341
(Senate Bill 622)

AN ACT concerning