Ch. 261                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 6(a-l)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments',

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 8(c)(10)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

4.

Any unemployed individual is eligible to receive benefits
with respect to any week only if the Executive Director finds
that:

(c) He is able to work, and is available for work; provided
no claimant shall be considered ineligible in any week of
unemployment for failure to comply with provisions of this
subsection if such failure is due to illness or disability which
occurs after he has registered for work and no work which would
have been considered suitable at the time of his initial
registration has been offered after the beginning of such illness
or disability. The Secretary shall not use the blindness of an
unsighted or other severely handicapped person as a factor making
such a person ineligible under the "able to work" requirement of
this subsection if the person was an employee of the Blind
Industries and Services of Maryland, immediately prior to being
unemployed. As used in this subsection, the term "available for
work" shall mean, among other things, that a claimant is actively
seeking work. In determining whether or not the claimant has
actively sought work, the Secretary shall consider whether the
efforts he has made to obtain work have been reasonable and are
such efforts as an unemployed individual is expected to make if
he is honestly looking for work. The extent of the effort
required shall depend upon labor market conditions in the
claimant's area.

Provided further that when an employer closes its entire
plant or any portion of the plant for a vacation or inventory or

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