MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

1897

(C)     MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF FEDERAL, STATE,
COUNTY, OR CITY GOVERNMENTS, HOSPITALS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SERVICE COUNCILS AND AGENCIES WHICH OPERATE AS NONPROFIT
GROUPS THAT PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SYSTEM THROUGH THE PROVISION OF CARE, EQUIPMENT,
FACILITIES, OR CONSULTANT SUPPORT WITHOUT CHARGING THE
EMERGENCY VICTIM A FEE FOR THE SERVICE PROVIDED ARE NOT
LIABLE FOR ANY CIVIL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ACTS OR
OMISSIONS NOT AMOUNTING TO GROSS NEGLIGENCE.

(D)    A PERSON NOT INCLUDED IN THE ABOVE CATEGORIES,
WHO WITHOUT COMPENSATION RENDERS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE AT
THE SCENE OF AN EMERGENCY, IS NOT LIABLE FOR ACTS
COMMITTED OR OMITTED, PROVIDED THE PERSON RENDERING THE
AID ACTS IN A REASONABLY PRUDENT MANNER AND RELINQUISHES
DIRECTION OF CARE OF THE INJURED PERSON WHEN A PERSON
LICENSED OR CERTIFIED BY THE STATE OF MARYLAND TO PROVIDE
MEDICAL CARE OR SERVICES IS IN A POSITION TO ASSUME
RESPONSIBILITY FOR CARE OF THE INJURED PERSON.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay
vote supported by three—fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 690

(House Bill 828)

AN ACT concerning

Sex Discrimination — Domicile

FOR the purpose of providing that a spouse's domicile is
not fixed by operation of law [[and that refusal of
a spouse to follow the other spouse does not
constitute desertion or abandonment in a divorce
action]]; providing for domicile of a child under
certain circumstances; and generally [[relating to
removal of sex discrimination from the]] concerning
laws relating to domicile.

BY adding to

Article 16 - Chancery