960                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                               Ch. 185

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 186

(House Bill 779)

AN ACT concerning

Related Institutions - Penalties

FOR the purpose of increasing the fine for operating a
related institution in violation of certain
regulations; and making a correction.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 565A

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

565A.

Any person maintaining and operating a related
institution which is subject to the provisions of this
subtitle and which is in violation of [the regulations] ANY
RULE OR REGULATION promulgated by the [Board] SECRETARY OF
HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE AND applicable to [such] THAT
related [institutions] INSTITUTION, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
more than [ten dollars ($10.00)] $1,000 [for the first
offense and not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for
each subsequent offense]. Each day such related institution
shall operate after a first conviction IN VIOLATION OF THE
SAME RULE OR REGULATION shall be considered a subsequent
offense.

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

Approved April 22, 1980.