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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 614

(b) A license to practice midwifery issued under this
subtitle does not authorize a licensee:

(1)  To practice medicine, except as otherwise
provided by this subtitle;

(2)  To prescribe drugs;

(3)  To undertake charge of administering care
for:

(i) Abnormal cases of pregnancy; or

(ii) A disease that relates to childbirth;

(4)  Except under the direction and supervision
of a physician, to try to deliver a child if the child is
not delivered spontaneously within a reasonable time;

(5)  Except under the personal direction and
supervision of a physician, to attend a woman in an abnormal
case of childbirth; or

(6)  To administer a drug to a mother or child at
childbirth except:

(i) On the advice of a physician; or

(ii) As a prophylactic against gonococcal
ophthalmia neonatorum.]

[7-605.

(a)  Subject to the hearing provisions of § 7-313 of
this title, the Board may revoke the license of a licensed
nurse midwife who is convicted twice of violating any
provision of this subtitle.

(b)  Subject to the hearing provisions of § 7-313 of
this title, the Board shall revoke the license of a licensed
nurse midwife who is convicted of producing a criminal
abortion or criminally inducing premature labor. The Board
may not reinstate or issue a new license to a former
licensee whose license has been revoked under this
subsection.]

[7-606.

If, while practicing midwifery, a licensed nurse
midwife attends a woman who does not deliver a child
spontaneously within a reasonable time, the licensed nurse
midwife promptly shall notify a physician.]

[7-607.