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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 249

BY adding to

Article 43 - Health

Section 132C

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

132C.

(A)  EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS
SECTION, A PERSON WHO IN GOOD FAITH DONATES FOOD FOR USE OR
DISTRIBUTION BY A NONPROFIT CORPORATION, ORGANIZATION, OR
ASSOCIATION IS NOT LIABLE FOR CIVIL DAMAGES AS A RESULT OF
AN ACT OR OMISSION AFFECTING THE NATURE, AGE, CONDITION OR
PACKAGING OF THE DONATED FOOD, UNLESS THE ACT OR OMISSION
AMOUNTS TO GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL AND WANTON
MISCONDUCT.

(B)  SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO A
PERSON WHO DONATES FOOD TO A NONPROFIT CORPORATION,
ORGANIZATION, OR ASSOCIATION WHICH SELLS OR OFFERS FOR SALE
DONATED FOOD.

(C)  THE STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH
AND MENTAL HYGIENE MAY INSPECT DONATED FOOD ITEMS FOR
WHOLESOMENESS AND MAY ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR THE HANDLING
OF FOOD ITEMS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 22. 1980.

CHAPTER 250

(House Bill 1812)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Parole Commission - Exclusive Powers

FOR the purpose of eliminating the exclusive power of the
Maryland Parole Commission to hear parole release cases
in which the inmate has been convicted of a violent
crime and has served less than one-quarter of his
aggregate sentence.