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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 81

MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 101 — Workmen's Compensation

21.

(b) The following shall constitute employees subject
to the provisions of this act, except as exempted under
subsection (c) of this section:

(4) Every person in the service of any
political subdivision or agency thereof, under any contract
of hire, express or implied, and every official or officer
thereof, whether elected or appointed, while performing his
official duties. Except as provided in [subsection
21(c)(6)] SUBSECTION 21(C)(5) of this act, every person who
is a member of a volunteer fire or rescue squad or police
department shall be deemed for the purpose of this act, to
be in the employment of the political subdivision of the
State where the department is organized. Except as provided
in [subsection 21(c)(6)] SUBSECTION 21(C)(5) of this act,
every person who is a regularly enrolled volunteer member or
trainee of the civil defense corps of this State as
established under the Maryland Civil Defense Act shall be
deemed, for the purposes of this act, to be in the
employment of the State.

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(b) Compensation for injury or death of such persons
shall be based upon the salary or wages received by such
persons while so hired or engaged and if there be no such
salary or wages, or such salary or wages be less than in
their private employment, then the base shall be the salary
or wages received in their private employment; and if such
person [have] HAS no private employment but has income from
a source other than salary or wages, and if such person has
no employment or has no source of income, compensation shall
be the minimum compensation set out in this article.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved April 11, 1978.

CHAPTER 82

(Senate Bill 775)

AN ACT concerning

Corrective Bill —
Article 95A "Unemployment Insurance Law"