HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3583.

(4) A PERSON WHO RECEIVES A CITATION MAY ELECT TO
STAND TRIAL FOR THE OFFENSE BY FILING WITH THE METROPOLITAN
COMMISSION A NOTICE OF INTENTION TO STAND TRIAL. THE NOTICE
SHALL BE GIVEN AT LEAST 5 DAYS BEFORE THE DATE OF PAYMENT AS SET
FORTH IN THE CITATION. ON RECEIPT OF THE NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
STAND TRIAL, THE COMMISSION SHALL FORWARD TO THE DISTRICT COURT
HAVING VENUE A COPY OF THE CITATION AND THE NOTICE OF INTENTION
TO STAND TRIAL. ON RECEIPT OF THE CITATION, THE DISTRICT COURT
SHALL SCHEDULE THE CASE FOR TRIAL AND NOTIFY THE DEFENDANT OF THE
TRIAL DATE. ALL FINES, PENALTIES, OR FORFEITURES COLLECTED BY
THE DISTRICT COURT FOR VIOLATION SHALL BE REMITTED TO ST. MARY'S
COUNTY METROPOLITAN COMMISSION.

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

Approved May 28, 1985.

CHAPTER 760

(House Bill 579)

AN ACT concerning

Workmen's Compensation - Fire Fighters, Fire Fighting
Instructors, and Rescue Squad Members - Presumption

FOR the purpose of creating a presumption of compensability under
the workmen's compensation laws for fire fighters or fire
fighting instructors certain persons that become disabled
from certain specified types of cancer as a result of
contact with toxic substances during the course of their
employment; and providing that certain conditions must exist
before there is a presumption.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 64A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

64A.