HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                        2357

[(iii)] (II) An intermediate care facility --
mental retardation.

(2) "Related institution" includes any institution in
paragraph (1) of this subsection, as reclassified from time to
time by law.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 371

(Senate Bill 862)

AN ACT concerning

Family Law - Grounds for Divorce

FOR the purpose of providing as a new ground for a limited
divorce the abuse of a child of the complaining party
either party to the action; providing as a new ground for an
absolute divorce the abuse of a child of the complaining
party either party to the action, if the parties have lived
separate and apart under certain circumstances; providing
that recrimination is not a bar to an absolute divorce on
the ground of abuse certain treatment of a child of the
complaining party; providing that the court may decree a
limited divorce on certain grounds, including cruelty of
treatment of or excessively vicious conduct to a minor child
of the complaining party; and generally relating to grounds
for divorce.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law
Section 7-102(a) and 7-103
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (H.B. 1) of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1984)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 7-103

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ___(H.B. 1) of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1984)