MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            2197

better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual
acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in

which the peripheral field has contracted to such an

extent that the widest diameter of visual field substends
an angular distance no greater than twenty degrees in the
better eye.

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

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 795

(House Bill 1613)

AN ACT concerning

District Court — Attorneys—at—Law

FOR the purpose of providing that the appearance of an
attorney in any civil case in the District Court is
automatically terminated upon the entry of final
judgment, subject to certain conditions.

BY adding to

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 6-407

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 6—407 be and it is hereby
added to Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1974 Volume and 1975
Supplement) to read as follows:

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

6-407.

IN A CIVIL CASE IN THE DISTRICT COURT, THE
APPEARANCE OF AN ATTORNEY TERMINATES AUTOMATICALLY UPON
THE ENTRY OF FINAL JUDGMENT FROM WHICH NO APPEAL IS
TAKEN, IF THE TIME ALLOWED FOR APPEAL HAS EXPIRED.
HOWEVER, PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE TIME FOR APPEAL
THE COURT, FOR GOOD CAUSE, ON ITS OWN MOTION, OR ON
MOTION OF A PARTY, MAY SUSPEND THE TERMINATION OF THE
APPEARANCE.