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OF THE CHILD, AND IF, WITHIN 96 HOURS OF SUCH ABDUCTING,

DETAINING, OR SECRETING, THE RELATIVE SUBMITS A PETITION TO

A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION WITHIN THIS STATE

EXPLAINING THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND SEEKING TO REVISE, AMEND,

OR CLARIFY THE EXISTING CUSTODY ORDER, THEN THIS

DETERMINATION__SHALL BE A COMPLETE DEFENSE TO ANY ACTION

BROUGHT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.

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

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 436

(Senate Bill 176)

AN ACT concerning

Location of Landfills Near Hospitals

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene from issuing a permit for a proposed
landfill system of refuse disposal when the proposed
landfill system is within a certain distance of any
hospital.

BY adding to

Article 43 - Health

Section 394(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

394.

(C) THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE     MAY

NOT ISSUE A PERMIT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION   FOR

ANY PROPOSED LANDFILL SYSTEM OF REFUSE DISPOSAL WHEN     THE

PROPOSED LANDFILL SYSTEM IS WITHIN ONE-HALF MILE OF   ANY
HOSPITAL.

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

Approved May 16, 1978.