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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 419

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 1 be and it is hereby added to
Article 49B — Human Relations Commission, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1974 Supplement) to read as follows:

Article 49B — Human Relations Commission

4.

AT ANY TIME AFTER A COMPLAINT HAS BEEN FILED, IF THE
COMMISSION BELIEVES THAT APPROPRIATE CIVIL ACTION IS
[[ADVISABLE]] NECESSARY TO PRESERVE THE STATUS [[QUO]] OF
THE PARTIES OR TO PREVENT IRREPARABLE HARM FROM THE TIME
THE COMPLAINT IS PILED UNTIL THE TIME OF ITS FINAL
DISPOSITION. THE COMMISSION MAY BRING [[AN]] ACTION
[[NECESSARY TO PRESERVE SUCH STATUS QUO OR TO PREVENT
SUCH IRREPARABLE HARM, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AN
ACTION]] TO OBTAIN A TEMPORARY [[RESTRAINING ORDER OR A
PRELIMINARY]] INJUNCTION. THE ACTION SHALL BE BROUGHT IN
THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY, OR BALTIMORE CITY,
WHERE THE PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION WHICH IS THE
SUBJECT OF THE ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION IS LOCATED, OR
WHERE THE UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE
OCCURRED, OR WHERE THE DWELLING WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF
THE ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION IS LOCATED.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
28 of Article 49B — Human Relations Commission, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 420
(House Bill 240)

AN ACT concerning