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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 885

complainant or petitioner shall be represented as provided
in Article 88A, §59(d)(C). When, in accordance with that
subsection, the Attorney General or legal officer represents
the complainant or petitioner, he shall have the same
authority and powers granted to the State's attorney under
§§ 66D and 661 of this subtitle.

(b) Prepayment of court costs may not be required of
such petitioners.

66G.

The court, upon notion of the defendant alleged to be
the putative father or upon its own motion, shall order the
mother, child, and defendant to submit to the blood tests
deemed necessary to determine whether or not the defendant
can be excluded as being the father of the child. The test
results may be received in evidence only in cases where
definite exclusion is established. The tests shall be made
in laboratories located in this State, selected by the court
from a list provided by the division BUREAU of child support
enforcement AND DOMESTIC COLLECTIONS of the Social Services
Administration. Reports of such tests shall be made by such
laboratories in writing and in the form required by the
court. Copies of the reports shall be furnished to the
petitioner or complainant and to the defendant or their
counsel. The reports, when admissible in evidence as
aforesaid, shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of the
results of such tests. The tests shall be paid for by the
county or city where the proceedings are pending, unless the
court orders one or more of the parties to the proceedings
to pay for the same or any part thereof. When the tests are
admitted in evidence, the laboratory technicians who made
them are subject to cross-examination by all parties to the
proceedings. If any person fails to submit to the blood
tests ordered by the court, such facts, when properly
adduced by evidence, shall be disclosed to the court and
jury and may be commented upon by the court or by counsel to
the jury or to the court when the case is tried without a
jury.

66-I.

The court may direct that the payments of the sums
provided for by any order under this subtitle shall be made
to the mother or to such person as the court may deem
proper, but if the child is or is likely to become a public
charge on a county or city of this State, the court may
direct such sums to be paid to the division BUREAU of child
support enforcement AND DOMESTIC COLLECTIONS of the Social
Services Administration for the support and maintenance of
the child.
Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
88.

(a) Any person who without just cause wilfully