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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 883

The [Authority] ADMINISTRATION may establish and
maintain, in cooperation with the Department of PUBLIC
SAFETY AND Correctional Services[,] or other appropriate
correctional or penal agency, programs for the prevention
and treatment of drug abuse and the rehabilitation of drug
[addicts] ABUSERS in any correctional or penal institutions
within this State.

19.

(a)  No facility, institution, organization or
individual, private or public, shall treat any person
seeking treatment for the effects of drug addiction or any
form of drug abuse, or extend any treatment, service, or
method of rehabilitation to any such person unless [so
approved and authorized by the Authority] CERTIFIED BY THE
ADMINISTRATION. [Such approval] CERTIFICATION shall be
granted pursuant to rules and regulations of the [Authority]
ADMINISTRATION [which shall provide for periodic review of
such approval].

(b)  An application for [the approval] CERTIFICATION of
the [Authority] ADMINISTRATION shall be filed with the
[Authority] ADMINISTRATION. If the [Authority]
ADMINISTRATION proposes to disapprove the application, it
shall afford the applicant an opportunity to request a
public hearing. If so requested, a public hearing shall be
held and [may be] conducted by [one or more members of the
Authority, as the Authority shall determine] THE
ADMINISTRATION.

22.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to give away or
otherwise to divulge to a person or persons not engaged in
[such] research and study for the [Authority]
ADMINISTRATION, any [of such] records, reports, statements,
notes, or other information, which name or otherwise
identify any person or persons. Any person who violates any
provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor[,] and
upon conviction [shall be fined] IS SUBJECT TO A FINE OF not
more than [fifty dollars ($50.00)] $1,000.

[23.

In the event that a new Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene administered by a Secretary of Health is created by
subsequent law, both that Department and Secretary shall be
substituted for any reference made within this article to
the Department of Mental Hygiene and its Commissioner.]

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

Approved May 27, 1980.