HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                       2659

HOMEOWNER UNDER THIS SUBSECTION MAY NOT BE ASSIGNED TO THE
CONTINUING CARE FACILITY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 27, 1986.

CHAPTER 706
(House Bill 22)
AN ACT concerning

Adoption - Consent - Racial or Religious 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 or religion of
the prospective adoptive parents is different from that of
the individual to be adopted or of the birth parents, under
certain circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-311

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1985 Supplement)

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;

(2)  the natural father; and

(3)  the individual, if the individual is at least 10
years old.

(b)  (1) If the natural parents' rights have been terminated
by a judicial proceeding, an individual may not be adopted
without the consent of: