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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 472

article, shall be accorded notice and opportunity to be
heard, in accordance with the procedures prescribed by
law for discharges for other reasons. Every person and
every board, commission, council, department, or other
agency of the State of Maryland or any political
subdivision thereof having responsibility for the
appointment, employment or supervision of public
employees not covered by the classified service in this
section referred to, shall establish rules or procedures
similar to those required herein for classified services
for a hearing for any person charged with being a
subversive person, as defined in this article, after
notice and opportunity to be heard. Every employing
authority discharging any person pursuant to any
provision of this article shall promptly report to the
special assistant attorney general in charge of
subversive activities the fact of and the circumstances
surrounding such discharge. A person discharged under
the provisions of this section shall have the right to
appeal to the circuit court of the county or to the
Baltimore City court wherein such person may reside for a
determination by such court (with the aid of a jury, if
the appellant so elects) as to whether or not the
discharge appealed from was justified under the
provisions of this article. The court shall speedily
hear and determine such appeals, and from the judgment of
the court, there shall be a further appeal to the Court
of SPECIAL Appeals [of Maryland] as in civil cases.

SECTION 23. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
32A(d) of Article 88A — Social Services Administration,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

32A.

(d) A person, firm, corporation or agency aggrieved
by the refusal of the State Department of Social Services
to issue a license under this section or by the State
Department's revocation or suspension of such a license,
may appeal therefrom to the circuit court of the county
in which the person, firm, corporation or agency has his
or its residence or principal office, as the case may be,
or to the Baltimore City Court, if the office or
residence is in Baltimore City. There is a further
right of appeal to the Court of SPECIAL Appeals [of
Maryland] at the instance of either party.

SECTION 24. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That

Sections 7(h) and 15(c) of Article 95A — Unemployment
Insurance Law, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows: