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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 524

[local] health officer or his designee and shall enforce all
orders of the [local] health officer and the public health
veterinarian issued pursuant to this subtitle or any other
applicable rabies control regulations.

708.

As used in this subtitle,

(3) "[Local health] HEALTH officer" means the
[deputy State] health officer FOR A COUNTY or the
commissioner of health in Baltimore City.

710.

A person desiring a license to establish and operate a
group day-care center or to continue the operation of an
existing group day-care center shall file a notarized
application with the [local] health officer, setting forth
the name of the applicant, the location of the center, the
name of the person to be in charge of the center, and such
additional information as the [local] health officer or the
[Board] SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE may require.

711.

The [local] health officer shall issue a license to any
person to establish, maintain, and operate a group day-care
center if he determines that the person has complied with
the provisions of this subtitle and the regulations issued
thereunder by the [Board] SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND MENTAL
HYGIENE. A license granted hereunder is not assignable or
transferable. All licenses expire automatically one year
after issue, unless sooner revoked or suspended, and
licenses are renewable for successive periods of one year
each upon compliance with the current requirements for
original issue.

712.

(a) A license issued under this subtitle may be
revoked or suspended by the [Commissioner of the State
Department] SECRETARY of Health AND MENTAL HYGIENE, who may
delegate this power to the [local] health officer. The
revocation or suspension may be for such period as
determined by the [Commissioner] SECRETARY or the [local]
health officer, and shall be based upon a finding that the
licensee has violated some provision of this subtitle or of
the regulations adopted and promulgated thereunder,
including any act or fact which would have been cause for
refusing the original or renewal issue of the license.
Prior to the revocation or suspension the licensee shall be
given an opportunity for a public hearing before the [State
Commissioner of Health] SECRETARY or the [local] health
officer, as the case may be, with not less than ten days'
notice of the hearing and an opportunity to be represented
by counsel.