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IMPEACHMENT WHEN THE PROSECUTOR PUTS THE VICTIM'S PRIOR
SEXUAL CONDUCT IN ISSUE.

(B) ANY EVIDENCE DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (A) OF
THIS SECTION, MAY NOT BE REFERRED TO IN ANY STATEMENTS TO
A JURY NOR INTRODUCED AT TRIAL WITHOUT THE COURT HOLDING
A PRIOR IN CAMERA HEARING TO DETERMINE THE ADMISSIBILITY
OF THE EVIDENCE. IF NEW INFORMATION IS DISCOVERED DURING
THE COURSE OF THE TRIAL THAT MAY MAKE THE EVIDENCE
DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (A) ADMISSIBLE, THE COURT KAY
ORDER AN IN CAMERA HEARING TO DETERMINE THE ADMISSIBILITY
OF THE PROPOSED EVIDENCE UNDER SUBSECTION (A).

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 575

(Senate Bill 372)

AN ACT concerning

Health — Use of Public Health Laboratories

FOR the purpose of requiring the continuance of public
health and clinical laboratories in certain places;
and allowing the continuance of public health and
clinical laboratories in other areas of this State.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 35 (a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 35(a) of Article 43 - Health, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume
and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 43 — Health

35.

(a) The State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene,
[to the extent that funds and facilities are available,]
shall conduct inquiries into the nature, source and
vehicles of infectious diseases, and into the nature and
character of sewage, trades wastes, and into nuisances.