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Ch. 61
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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officer represents the complainant or petitioner, he shall have
the same authority and powers granted to the State's attorney
under §§ 66D and 66L of this subtitle.
66G.
The court, upon motion of a party to the proceedings or upon
its own motion, shall order the mother, child, and alleged father
to submit to blood tests necessary to determine whether or not
the alleged father can be excluded as being the father of the
child. The test results may be received in evidence in cases
where definite exclusion is established, and in cases in which
exclusion is not established, if testing was sufficiently
extensive to exclude 97.3 percent of putative fathers who are not
biological fathers, and the statistical probability of the
alleged father's paternity is at least 97.3 percent. The tests
shall be made in laboratories selected by the court from a list
provided by the [bureau of support enforcement of the Social
Services Administration] CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES. 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 alleged father or
their counsel. The reports, when admissible in evidence, shall
be accepted as prima facie evidence of the results of such tests.
Unless indigent, the party requesting the blood tests shall be
responsible for their costs; however, if the requesting party
prevails in the action, the court shall assess such costs against
the other party or parties in the action. If a party is indigent,
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 all or part of the
costs. 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.
66-I.
The court may direct that the payments of the sums provided
for by any order under this subtitle shall be made to the mother
or to such person as the court may deem proper, but if the child
is or is likely to become a public charge on a county or city of
this State, the court may direct such sums to be paid to the
[bureau of support enforcement of the Social Services
Administration] CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES for the support and maintenance of
the child.
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
88.
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