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B. SODOMY; AND

C.  UNNATURAL OR PERVERTED SEXUAL
PRACTICES.

(B) A PARENT OR OTHER PERSON WHO HAS PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY
CARE OR CUSTODY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SUPERVISION OF A CHILD
WHO CAUSES ABUSE TO THE CHILD IS GUILTY OF A FELONY AND ON
CONVICTION IS SUBJECT TO IMPRISONMENT IN THE PENITENTIARY NOT
EXCEEDING 15 YEARS.

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

62A.

The local unit may pay the reasonable funeral expenses, not
to exceed $400, of [children receiving foster care under the
Administration's foster care program and] recipients of aid to
families with dependent children, general public assistance,
public assistance to adults, and on and after January 1, 1974 all
Maryland recipients of assistance payments from the federal
Supplemental Security Income Program under Title XVI of the
Social Security Act. Provided that any persons legally
responsible for the support of the decedent are unable to pay the
expenses, and that other resources, including available death
benefits or the estate of the decedent, are insufficient to pay
the funeral expenses. The cost of the payment shall be charged
two thirds to State funds and one third to local funds.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That §§ 7-102, 7-103,
7-104, and 11-111 of this article shall not apply to cases filed
on or before July 1, 1983, but that those cases shall be governed
by former Article 16, §§ 24, 25, 26, 26A, and 31, as those
sections read on June 30, 1983, as if those sections had not been
repealed by this Act and as if those sections had not been
amended by Ch. 491, Acts of 1983.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Revisor's
Notes and catchlines contained in this Act are not law and may
not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this Act.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That nothing in this
Act affects the term of office of an appointed or elected member
of any department, board, commission, committee, agency, or other
unit. A person who is a member of a unit on the effective date
of this Act shall remain a member for the balance of the term to
which appointed or elected, unless the member sooner dies,
resigns, or is removed under provisions of law.