EXECUTIVE ORDERS
C. On or before the date of any delivery of financial
assistance, an authorized officer of each recipient shall
certify that discrimination is prohibited by the recipient.
D. The organizational documents of the recipient shall
contain, within 90 days of any delivery of financial
assistance, a non-discrimination clause, of in the
alternative, the documents evidencing the State's financial
assistance shall contain a covenant by the recipient not to
discriminate. Failure to change the organizational
documents, if necessary, within 90 days of any delivery of
financial assistance, obligates the recipient to repay the
award, along with interest, at a rate to be determined by
the approving agency.
E. Recipients of State financial assistance shall submit to
the approving agency, at its request, information relating
to the recipient's operations, with regard to political or
religious opinion or affiliation, marital status, physical
or mental handicap, race, color, creed, sex, age, or
national origin. Such information shall be furnished on a
form to be prescribed by the agency.
ARTICLE VII - OTHER GOVERNMENTAL BODIES
All political subdivisions and other instrumentalities of
government are requested to cooperate in this endeavor to
the end that any and all discrimination within the State is
eliminated.
ARTICLE VIII - COOPERATION WITH THE MARYLAND
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS AND THE SECRETARY OF PERSONNEL
A. All State agencies, in accordance with the provisions
and intent of the State Constitution and the State's laws
against discrimination shall cooperate fully with the
Maryland Commission on Human Relations and the Secretary of
Personnel and duly comply with their validly adopted rules,
regulations, guidelines, and directives for effectuating the
State's policy against discrimination.
B. Any State agency receiving from a State employee or
applicant a complaint of discrimination based on religious
opinion or affiliation, marital status, physical or mental
handicap, race, color, creed, national origin, sex, or age
shall promptly refer the complaint to the Maryland
Commission on Human Relations.
C. If the Human Relations Commission certifies for public
hearing a complaint of unlawful discrimination by any person
licensed by a State agency, it shall notify the licensing
agency of the pendency of that hearing.
D. If an employee of the Human Relations Commission files a
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