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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 855

66G.

The court, upon motion of the defendant alleged to be
the putative father or upon its own motion, shall order the
mother, child, and defendant to submit to the blood tests
deemed necessary to determine whether or not the defendant
can be excluded as being the father of the child. The test
results may be received in evidence only in cases where
definite exclusion is established. The tests shall be made
in laboratories [located in this State,] selected by the
court from a list provided by the bureau of support
enforcement of the Social Services Administration. Reports
of such tests shall be made by such laboratories in writing
and in the form required by the court. Copies of the
reports shall be furnished to the petitioner or complainant
and to the defendant or their counsel. The reports, when
admissible in evidence as aforesaid, shall be accepted as
prima facie evidence of the results of such tests. The
tests shall be paid for by the county or city where the
proceedings are pending, unless the court orders one or more
of the parties to the proceedings to pay for the same or any
part thereof. When the tests are admitted in evidence, the
laboratory technicians who made them are subject to
cross-examination by all parties to the proceedings. If any
person fails to submit to the blood tests ordered by the
court, such facts, when properly adduced by evidence, shall
be disclosed to the court and jury and may be commented upon
by the court or by counsel to the jury or to the court when
the case is tried without a jury.

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

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 856

(House Bill 590)

AN ACT concerning

State Police - Subsistence Pay - Tax Refund Income Tax

FOR the purpose of extending the statute of limitations for
filing a claim for refund of income taxes paid with
respect to certain subsistence pa received by members
of the Maryland State Police force providing an income
tax subtraction modification for certain amounts
received as a subsistence allowance by a member of the
Maryland State Police force for certain taxable years;
and clarifying language.