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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 339

BY adding to

Article 89 - Division of Labor and Industry

Section 29(j) and 33(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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 89 - Division of Labor and Industry

29.

(J) FOR THE PURPOSES OF § 33(F), "CONFINED SPACE"
MEANS A SPACE WHICH BY DESIGN HAS LIMITED OPENINGS FOR ENTRY
AND EXIT AND IS SUBJECT TO THE ACCUMULATION OF TOXIC OR
COMBUSTIBLE AGENTS OR TO A DEFICIENCY OF OXYGEN, INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ENCLOSED OR OPEN-TOPPED TANKS, PROCESS
OR REACTION VESSELS, BASINS, BINS, PITS, TUBS, SILOS, VATS,
DEGREASERS, DUCTS, SEWERS, TUNNELS, AND PIPELINES, AND IN
WHICH THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED OR SERVICES PROVIDED CONSIST
OF CLEANING, PAINTING, REPAIRING, MAINTENANCE, SERVICE,
INSPECTION, OR OTHER SIMILAR WORK.

33.

(F) ANY EMPLOYER WHO IS A SUBCONTRACTOR AS DEFINED BY
THIS SUBSECTION SHALL NOTIFY THE COMMISSIONER OF LABOR AND
INDUSTRY, IN WRITING OR ORALLY, OF THE START OF WORK, NOT
LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE THE START OF ANY WORK TO BE
PERFORMED BY THE SUBCONTRACTOR IN A CONFINED SPACE AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 32(D) § 29(J) OF THIS SUBTITLE. WITHIN 24
HOURS OF THE ORAL NOTIFICATION, THE EMPLOYER SHALL SUBMIT
WRITTEN NOTIFICATION TO THE COMMISSIONER. FOR THE PURPOSES
OF THIS SUBSECTION, "SUBCONTRACTOR" MEANS A PERSON WHO
ENTERS INTO ANY CONTRACT WITH A CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTOR
FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY PART OF A CONTRACT.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 12, 1981.

CHAPTER 340
(House Bill 22)
AN ACT concerning