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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 32 4

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 43 - Health

560A.

(A)    IF THE SECRETARY DETERMINES THAT A LIFE
THREATENING HEALTH OR FIRE SAFETY DEFICIENCY EXISTS IN A
RELATED INSTITUTION, HE IMMEDIATELY MAY RESTRICT NEW
ADMISSIONS FOR NOT MORE THAN A 30-DAY PERIOD.

(B)    WITHIN SEVEN DAYS AFTER A REQUEST BY AN AGGRIEVED
PARTY, A HEARING SHALL BE HELD TO DETERMINE THE
APPROPRIATENESS OF THE ADMISSIONS RESTRICTION.

(C)    WITHIN 21 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE ADMISSIONS
RESTRICTION, THE RELATED INSTITUTION SHALL TAKE STEPS TO
CORRECT THE DEFICIENCY.

(D)    (1) UNLESS THE SECRETARY LIFTS THE ADMISSIONS
RESTRICTION, WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER THE INITIAL ADMISSIONS
RESTRICTION, A HEARING SHALL BE HELD TO DETERMINE IF
SUFFICIENT STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO CORRECT THE DEFICIENCY.

(2) IF THE SECRETARY FINDS THAT THE DEFICIENCY
STILL EXISTS, HE MAY:

(I)    REVOKE THE FACILITY'S LICENSE; AND

(II)   REMOVE ANY PATIENTS FROM THE FACILITY
TO AN APPROPRIATE LICENSED FACILITY.

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

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 325

(House Bill 227)

AN ACT concerning

Pharmacists — Disciplinary Action

FOR the purpose of providing that the Board of Pharmacy, by
a two—thirds majority rather than unanimous vote, nay
take certain disciplinary action against a pharmacist;
specifying additional actions that the Board may take;
changing the causes enumerated as the bases for
disciplinary action against a pharmacist; deleting
obsolete references to assistant pharmacists; and