MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

1835

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A — Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 20(g)(7)(ii), 20(g)(7)(v), and 20(g)(8)(vi)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 20(g)(7)(ii), 20(g)(7)(v), and
20(g) (8) (vi) 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repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read as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:

Article 95A — Unemployment Insurance Law

20.

(g) (7) After December 31, 1971 "employment"
shall include:

(ii) Notwithstanding §§ 20 (g) (2), 20
(g) (5) and 20 (g) (8) (vi) , all service performed after
December 3 1, 1971, by an officer or member of the crew of
an American vessel or an American aircraft on or in
connection with that vessel or that aircraft if the
operating office from which the operations of that vessel
or aircraft operating on navigable waters is within this
State, or the operation of that aircraft within this
State, or the operation of that vessel or such aircraft
within and without the United States, is ordinarily and
regularly supervised, managed, directed and controlled,
within this State.

For the purposes of this subsection, "American
vessel" means any vessel, EXCEPT THOSE VESSELS DESCRIBED
IN PARAGRAPH (V) OF THIS SUBSECTION, [[OVER TEN NET
TONS]] documented or numbered under the laws of the
United States. It also means any vessel which is neither
documented or numbered under the laws of the United
States nor documented under the laws of any foreign
country, if its crew performs service solely for one or
more citizens or residents of the United States or
corporations organized under the laws of the United
States or of any state. "American aircraft" means an
aircraft registered under the laws of the United States.

(v) For the purposes of paragraphs (iii)
hereof the term "employment" shall not apply to service
performed:

BY AN OFFICER OR MEMBER OF THE CREW OF A VESSEL OF
TEN NET TONS OR LESS CAPACITY WHILE ENGAGED IN THE
CATCHING, TAKING, HARVESTING, CULTIVATING, OR FARMING OF
ANY KIND OF FISH, SHELLFISH, CRUSTACEA, SPONGES, SEAWEED,
OR OTHER AQUATIC FORMS OF ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE LIFE,__WHO