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Attorney to take certain action if the State's Attorney
intends to introduce the results of a blood test in a
paternity proceeding without the presence of the laboratory
technician; requiring an alleged father to take certain
action if he desires the presence of the laboratory
technician in a paternity proceeding; providing that, under
certain circumstances, the failure of an alleged father to
request the presence of a laboratory technician waives his
right to the presence of a laboratory technician; making
stylistic changes; and generally relating to the
admissibility of the results of a blood test without the
presence of a laboratory technician in a paternity
proceeding.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-1029

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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

Article - Family Law

5-1029.

(a)  On the motion of a party to the proceeding or on its
own motion, the court shall order the mother, child, and alleged
father to submit to blood tests to determine whether the alleged
father can be excluded as being the father of the child.

(b)  The blood tests shall be made in a laboratory selected
by the court from a list of laboratories provided by the
Administration.

(c)  The laboratory shall report the results of each blood
test in writing and in the form the court requires.

(d)  A copy of the results of each blood test shall be
provided to the parties or their counsel in the manner that the
court directs.

(e)  (1) The results of each blood test shall be received in
evidence if:

(i) definite exclusion is established; or

(ii) the testing is sufficiently extensive to
exclude 97.3% of alleged fathers who are not biological fathers,

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