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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 123

Article, which relates to the nonliability of
certain local officials, including county
councilman, for words spoken in debate. That
section was derived in part from Art. 25A,
§3A, which was to have been repealed as
superseded. However, by typographical error,
the 1975 Act purported to repeal instead Art.
25, §3, resulting in decodification of the
statute and necessitating its recodification.
No changes are made in the text of the statute
as it read before its decodification.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
3A of Article 25A — Chartered Counties of Maryland, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1973 Replacement Volume
and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 25A — Chartered Counties of Maryland

[3A.

No county councilman shall be liable in any civil
action or criminal prosecution for words spoken in debate
at a meeting of the county councilmen.]

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That there
having been no intent to repeal Art. 25A, §3 by Ch. 2,
Acts of 1975, 1st Sp. Sess., any charter provision
adopted or other act taken since December 31, 1973 under
said Article 25A, §3 or any charter provision previously
adopted under its authority is hereby ratified and
confirmed to the same extent, as it would have been valid
had Art. 25A, §3, as it stood on December 31, 1973, never
been repealed.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
Revisor's Note contained in this Act is not law and may
not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this

Act.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved April 13, 1976.

CHAPTER 124
(Senate Bill 348)

Health Maintenance Organization

AN ACT concerning
Dentistry —