HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy or
childbirth, are temporary disabilities for all job-related
purposes, and shall be treated as such under any health or
temporary disability insurance or sick leave plan available
in connection with employment. [However, no employer is
required to provide temporary disability insurance or a sick
leave plan for more than six weeks benefits for a normal
childbirth or pregnancy.] Written and unwritten employment
policies and practices involving matters such as the
commencement and duration of leave, the availability of
extensions, the accrual of seniority and other benefits and
privileges, reinstatement and payment under any health or
temporary disability insurance or sick leave plan, formal or
informal, shall be applied to disability due to pregnancy or
childbirth on the same terms and conditions as they are
applied to other temporary disabilities subject to the
provisions of this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 272

(Senate Bill 426)

AN ACT concerning

State Fire Marshal - Compliance with Orders

FOR the purpose of providing that any county or municipality
may cooperate with the State Fire Marshal in remedying
certain conditions existing in the county or
municipality under certain circumstances; and providing
a lien on certain property in the amount of the expense
borne by the county or municipality.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 38A - Fires and. Investigations

Section 11

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 38A - Fires and Investigati