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ARE NEUTRAL AS TO GENDER UNLESS THE SUBJECT MATTER
SPECIFICALLY APPLIES ONLY TO ONE SEX, AND EXCEPTING NAMES
AND ORGANIZATIONAL TITLES FROM THIS RULE; AND

[(5)] (7) Perform any additional duties as requested
by the Director and serve as the assistant director of the
Department of Legislative Reference if so designated by the
Director.

Article 73B - Pensions

The following words and phrases as used in this
article, unless a different meaning is plainly required by
the context, shall have the following meanings:

[(23) The masculine pronoun, wherever used, shall
include the feminine pronoun.]

Article 88B - State Police

49.

The following words and phrases as used in this
subtitle, unless a different meaning is plainly required by
the context shall have the following meanings:

[(23) The masculine pronoun wherever used shall
include the feminine pronoun.]

Article - Commercial Law

1-102.

(5) In Titles 1 through 10 of this article unless the
context otherwise requires

(b) Words of the [masculine] NEUTER gender
[include the feminine and the neuter, and when the sense so
indicates words of the neuter gender may] refer to any
gender.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 1, 1979.

CHAPTER 186
(House Bill 1314)
AN ACT concerning