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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 222

maximum rate of interest payable with respect to
certain bond authorizations relating to regional
community colleges, as these authorizations were
amended by Chapter 806 of the Acts of 1977.

BY repealing

Chapter 709 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1965
Section 1(d)

BY repealing

Chapter 440 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1969
Section 1{d)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That chapter(s) of the Acts of the General
Assembly be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Chapter 709 of the Acts of 1965

1.

[(d) The rate of interest of the certificates to be
issued at any particular time not exceeding in any case five
percentum (5%) per annum, payable semi—annually.]

Chapter 440 of the Acts of 1969

1.

[(d) The rate or rates of interest of the certificates
to be issued at any particular time not exceeding in any
case five per centum (5% per annum, payable semi—annually.]

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

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 223

(Senate Bill 300)

AN ACT concerning

Rape and Sexual Offenses — Definition of Mentally Defective

FOR the purpose of altering the definition of mentally
defective so as to include retarded persons under the
provisions relating to victims of rape and sexual
offenses.