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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 524

Article II - General Powers

(48)

To provide penalties for the violation of any
ordinance, rule or regulations established by the City under
or in the execution of any power granted by this Article II;
provided that no fine shall exceed [$500.00] $1,000 and no
imprisonment shall be for a longer period than 12 months.

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

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 525

(Senate Bill 437)

AN ACT concerning

Mental Hygiene - Procedures and Hearing for Admission

FOR the purpose of providing for procedures relating to the
admission or release of an individual to a facility
operated by the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene; providing for a hearing under certain
circumstances; providing that the hearing be conducted
within a certain time in a certain manner; providing
that the hearing officer consider certain elements as
to the individual whose admission is sought; clarifying
language; and generally relating to circumstances and
procedures regarding admission to certain facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 10-617(a) and 10-631
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ___(H.B. 200) of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1982)

BY renumbering

Article - Health - General

Section 19-633 10-632

to be Section 10-634 10-632(f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ___(H.B. 200) of the Acts