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or to cause, direct, permit, or authorize an employee or agent to
engage in or conduct business or open an establishment in that
manner.

534W-1.

The provisions of § 534W of this article do not apply to:

(5) [The four consecutive Sundays that immediately
precede] ALL THE SUNDAYS THAT OCCUR BETWEEN THANKSGIVING DAY AND
December 25;

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

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 161

(Senate Bill 273)

AN ACT concerning

Adoption - Consent - Racial Considerations

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the executive head of a child
placement agency from withholding consent to certain
adoptions for the sole reason that the race of the
prospective adoptive parents is different from that of the
individual to be adopted.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law
Section 5-311

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

5-311.

(a) Unless the natural parents' rights have been terminated
by a judicial proceeding, an individual may not be adopted
without the consent of:

(1) the natural mother;