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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 23

2.

(o) "Public service company" means a common carrier
company, gas company, electric company, steam heating company,
telephone company, telegraph company, radio common carrier, water
company, sewage disposal company, and/or any combination thereof.
Two public service companies shall be considered of the same
class, where they are both common carrier companies or both gas
companies, electric companies, gas and electric companies, steam
heating companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies,
water companies [or], sewage disposal companies OR RADIO COMMON
CARRIERS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved April 9, 1985.

CHAPTER 24

(Senate Bill 348)

AN ACT concerning

Adoption Subsidies - Amount

FOR the purpose of providing that under certain circumstances an
adoption subsidy may not exceed the allowable amount for a
child under foster family care in another state; and
generally relating to adoption subsidies.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law
Section 5-410(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

5-410.

(c) (1) The nature, amount, and duration of the subsidy
shall be determined by:

(i) the needs of the eligible child because of
the eligible child's special circumstances; and