BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                        2053

funds in any lending institution provided for herein which
[is found] THE COMMISSION FINES to be committing
discriminatory practices [by the Commission] and where such
findings were upheld by the court. Upon the court's
judicial enforcement of any order to restrain a practice of
such lending institution or for said institution to cease or
desist in a discriminatory practice, the Commission shall
notify all persons in charge of public funds of the name of
any such lending institution found to be practicing
discrimination in the course of providing its customary
commercial services. Upon receiving such notification the
appropriate fiscal officer or treasurer of the State or any
political subdivision thereof which has funds deposited in
any lending institution which is practicing discrimination,
as set forth herein, shall take immediate steps to have the
said funds withdrawn and redeposited in another lending
institution. If for reasons of sound economic management
this action will result in a financial loss to the State or
any of its political subdivisions, the action may be
deferred for a period not longer than one (1) year. If the
Commission notifies the State or a political subdivision
thereof that the lending institution in question has
corrected its discriminatory practices any prohibition set
forth in this section shall not be applicable. [Any
notification by the Commission shall comply with § 13(d) of
this subtitle and the prohibitions set out therein shall be
binding upon the State and local fiscal officers receiving
such notice.]

(c) The provisions of this section are severable and
if any provision, sentence, clause, subsection or part
thereof is held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional or
inapplicable to any person or circumstance, the illegality,
invalidity, unconstitutionality, or inapplicability shall
not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions,
sentences, clauses, subsections, or parts of the section of
their application to other persons or circumstances. It is
hereby declared to be legislative intent that this section
would have been adopted if the illegal, invalid or
unconstitutional provision, sentence, clause, subsection, or
part had not been included therein, and if the person or
circumstances to which the section or any part thereof is
inapplicable had been specifically exempted therefrom.

[26] 25.

It shall be unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten,
or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment
of, or on account of his having exercised or enjoyed, or on
account of his having aided or encouraged any other person
in the exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or
protected by §§ [22, 23 or 24] 20, 21, 22, OR 23. This
section may be enforced by appropriate civil action.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s)
11 through 30, respectively, of Article 49B - Human
Relations Commission, of the Annotated Code of Maryland be
renumbered to be Section(s) 5 through 28, respectively.