BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

1841

Article 43 - Health

Section 82, 86 and 93

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 83, 84, 85 and 89 through 94, inclusive

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

[82.

Every person not a legally qualified physician,
practising as midwife or acting as attendant upon woman in
childbed in this State, who shall find any lying—in woman to
have fever shall forthwith notify the health officer of the
district, and shall refrain from attendance upon any other
parturient woman, or woman in childbed, until the local
health officer shall give her written permission to resume
such practice. Every midwife, obstetrical nurse or other
person, not a legally qualified physician, attending for pay
or hire, upon any lying-in woman, or woman in childbed,
shall send his or her name and address to be registered in
the office of the registrar of vital statistics for the
city, town or county in which he or she resides. And every
person violating the provisions of this section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be
fined not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned not
exceeding six months, or be both fined and imprisoned, in
the discretion of the court. ]

82.

(A)    IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANING INDICATED.

(B)    "DEPARTMENT" MEANS THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE.

(C)    "PHYSICIAN" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS:

(1)    LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THIS
STATE; OR

(2)    LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE BY ANY STATE
AND AUTHORIZED BY THIS STATE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THIS
STATE.