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Article 56 — Licenses

168A.

THE COMMISSIONER OR HIS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE,
IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY DUTY OR THE EXECUTION OF ANY
POWER PRESCRIBED BY THIS SUBTITLE, MAY ADMINISTER OATHS,
CERTIFY AS TO OFFICIAL ACTS, TAKE AND CAUSE TO BE TAKEN
DEPOSITION OF WITNESSES, ISSUE SUBPOENAS, AND COMPEL THE
ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AND PRODUCTION OF PAPERS, BOOKS,
DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND TESTIMONY. IN CASE OF FAILURE OF
ANY PERSON TO COMPLY WITH A LAWFUL SUBPOENA, OR ON THE
REFUSAL OF ANY WITNESS TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE OR TO TESTIFY
TO ANY MATTER WHICH HE MAY BE LAWFULLY INTERROGATED, A
COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, IN THE POLITICAL
SUBDIVISION IN WHICH THE PERSON OR WITNESS RESIDES OR IS
THEN PRESENT, AND UPON THE APPLICATION OF THE
COMMISSIONER OR HIS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE, MAY COMPEL
OBEDIENCE BY PROCEEDINGS FOR CONTEMPT.

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

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 482
(House Bill 1290)

AN ACT concerning

Labor — Equal Pay for Equal Work

FOR the purpose of correcting certain errors in the law
relating to Equal Pay for Equal Work, and to correct
language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 100 — Work, Labor and Employment

Section 55D(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1964 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 55D(b) of Article 100 - Work,
Labor and Employment, of the Annotated Code of Maryland