1534                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 267

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 4(c), 8(c)(1), (3)(i) and (8), 15(b)(2) and

(3), (d), (e), and (k), 17(d), (e), and (f),

and 20(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 12(g)(4) and 17(f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

4.

Any unemployed individual is eligible to receive
benefits with respect to any week only if the Executive
Director finds that:

(c) He is able to work, and is available for work;
provided no claimant shall be considered ineligible in any
week of unemployment for failure to comply with provisions
of this subsection if such failure is due to illness or
disability which occurs after he has registered for work and
no work which would have been considered suitable at the
time of his initial registration has been offered after the
beginning of such illness or disability. The Executive
Director shall not use the blindness of an unsighted or
other severely handicapped person as a factor making such a
person ineligible under the "able to work" requirement of
this subsection if the person was an employee of the
Maryland Workshop for the Blind immediately prior to being
unemployed. As used in this subsection, the term "available
for work" shall mean, among other things, that a claimant is
actively seeking work. In determining whether or not the
claimant has actively sought work, the Executive Director
shall consider whether the efforts he has made to obtain
work have been reasonable and are such efforts as an
unemployed individual is expected to make if he is honestly
looking for work. The extent of the effort required shall
depend upon labor market conditions in the claimant's area.

Provided, that when an employer closes its entire plant
or any portion of the plant for a vacation or inventory or
other purpose causing unemployment for a certain and
definable period not exceeding [three] 12 10 weeks in any