HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(g) Any driver employed by an employer engaged
in the business of operating taxicabs.

(h) Any employee of a bona fide private country
club.

(i) Any employee who is employed by a nonprofit
employer and is primarily engaged in the furnishing of
temporary at-home care services such as delivery of prepared
meals, companionship and other related services to the sick,
the aged, [the mentally ill,] the handicapped, or THE
disabled OR INDIVIDUALS WITH A MENTAL DISORDER.

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

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(a) There shall be a medical board consisting of three
members who shall be licensed physicians in good
professional standing, two of whom shall have had at least
five (5) years' practice in the diagnosis, treatment and
care of industrial diseases, and one of whom shall be
especially trained in roentgenology, and who shall have had
at least five (5) years' practice and experience. They
shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate from a list of nominees to be
submitted by the deans of the [medical departments of the]
University of Maryland and [of the] Johns Hopkins University
SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE, and by the council of the Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, each of these three
agencies to submit a list of at least three persons, two of
whom shall be especially experienced in occupational
diseases, and one of whom shall be an experienced
roentgenologist. One of said members shall be designated as
chairman of the medical board by the Governor. The term of
office of a member of such board shall be six (6) years,
except that the first appointments hereunder shall be made
as follows: One for two (2) years, one for four (4) years,
and one for six (6) years. Vacancies shall be filled for
the balance of the unexpired terms in the same manner as the
original appointments as hereinbefore provided. Any one
member of the medical board shall have the authority to hear
any issues referred to said board, and the determination
thereof by any two members shall be deemed to be the
determination thereof by the board. The medical board shall
have the power and authority to make rules regulating its
procedure, to contract for laboratory work, to make
necessary investigations of working conditions; to provide
for ordering and the conducting of autopsies, to conduct
hearings on medical questions, to determine medical issues,
and to perform such other reasonable duties as the work of
the board may require. The functions of the board shall be
as set forth elsewhere in this article.

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