HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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of revenues sufficient to enable such carrier, under honest,
economical, and efficient management, to provide such service,
and upon consideration of such matters shall establish the need
for proper revenue by determination of a fair and equitable
operating ratio, which is the relationship of carrier expenses to
carrier operating revenues.

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

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 178

(Senate Bill 343)

AN ACT concerning

Freestanding Medical Facilities - Emergency Medical Care

FOR the purpose of establishing certain minimum requirements for
requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to
adopt regulations for certifying certain freestanding
medical facilities that use certain words or parts of words
in their advertising; requiring the Secretary Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene to verify compliance with certain
provisions of this Act and investigate certain complaints
issue a certificate to a freestanding medical facility that
meets certain requirements; requiring a freestanding medical
facility to be certified before it may operate; allowing
county governing bodies to adopt certain rules and
regulations on freestanding medical facilities; providing a
certain penalty; authorizing injunctions against certain
activities; defining certain terms; and generally relating
to freestanding medical facilities and emergency medical
care.

BY adding to

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Section 19-3A-01 through 19-3A-05 19-3A-06, inclusive, to be

under the new subtitle "Subtitle 3A. Freestanding

Medical Facilities"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

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