HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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of former Article 43, § 57.

The former minimum penalties of a $50 fine or 1
month imprisonment are deleted to conform to the
statement of legislative policy contained in
Article 27, § 643 of the Code, which sets forth
the general rule that, notwithstanding a
prescribed minimum penalty, the court
nevertheless may impose a lesser penalty of the
same character.

Defined term: "Person" § 1-101

GENERAL REVISOR'S NOTE:

The Commission to Revise the Annotated Code notes, for
consideration by the General Assembly, that the fines in
Part III of this subtitle are unequal despite the similarity
of the reporting requirements.

Former Article 43, § 60, which required an owner or
driver of a public conveyance to disinfect it after
conveying an infected individual, is deleted as
impracticable to enforce, since the driver or owner would
not know, necessarily, if a passenger has an infectious
disease. The public Service Commission, which regulates
public conveyances, indicates that the former Article 43, §
60 is not enforced. The Commission to Revise the Annotated
Code also understands the former section was enacted, in
1882, with other provisions primarily for control of
tuberculosis, which now can be controlled by medication.

Former Article 43, § 61, which required a lessor to
disinfect the house or room of an infected individual, is
deleted as unnecessary in light of the broad powers of the
Secretary under § 18-102 of this title and the penalty for
failing to comply with the rules and regulations of the
Secretary under § 18-504 of this title.

Former Article 43, § 99, which provided for disposal of
the bodily secretion or excretion of an infected individual,
is deleted as obsolete, because of its limited application
to tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza and "such other
diseases as the Secretary" determines. It also is
unnecessary in light of the broad powers of the Secretary
under § 18-102 of this title and of the health officers
under Subtitle 3 of this title.

SUBTITLE 3. SPECIFIC DISEASES.

PART I. CANCER.

18-301. TREATMENT OF CANCER.

(A) MISREPRESENTATIONS.