HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(7) IF CONSTRUCTION OF ANY WASTE DISPOSAL
FACILITY SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION (1) OF THIS
SECTION IS PROPOSED WITHIN 1 MILE OF THE BORDER OF AN
ADJOINING COUNTY, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH
CONSTRUCTION IS PROPOSED SHALL PROVIDE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
ADJOINING COUNTY WITH A COPY OF THE FILINGS REQUIRED UNDER
ARTICLE 43, SECTION 394 OF THE CODE, AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC
HEARINGS REQUIRED UNDER ARTICLE 43, SECTION 394A OF THE
CODE.

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

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 597

(Senate Bill 1102)

AN ACT concerning

Education of Handicapped Children - Parent Surrogates

FOR the purpose of establishing that parent surrogates
appointed by the Maryland State Board of Education
shall have limited immunity from suits for civil
damages filed by or on behalf of the child entrusted to
such parent surrogate; and making this Act an emergency
measure.

BY adding to

Article - Education

Section 8-414(g)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Education

8-414.

(G) (1) A PARENT SURROGATE APPOINTED PURSUANT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT BE LIABLE TO THE CHILD
ENTRUSTED TO SUCH PARENT SURROGATE OR THE PARENTS OR
GUARDIAN OF SUCH CHILD FOR ANY CIVIL DAMAGES WHICH RESULT
FROM ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF SUCH PARENT SURROGATE WHICH
CONSTITUTE ORDINARY NEGLIGENCE.