WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 316

components that are required in a certain annual sanitary survey; requiring a bottler
to submit certain information to the Department and to bottle products in certain
ways once a waiver has been granted; requiring revocation of a waiver under certain
circumstances; prohibiting a certain construction of this Act; repealing the
application of certain State primary drinking water regulations under certain
circumstances and substituting the application of certain federal standards;
requiring certain information to be presented for the sale of water shipped from
outside the State; authorizing the acceptance of certification programs certain
analyses from other states under  a certain circumstance; circumstances; altering
certain labeling requirements for certain waters; requiring bottled water to meet
certain filtration and disinfection treatment requirements; altering a certain
definition definitions; clarifying language; making certain stylistic corrections;
providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to a waiver of
filtration and germicidal disinfection treatment requirements for bottled water
products and other related miscellaneous provisions.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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Section 21-301(g) 21-301(b) and (g) and 21-336(a)(2)(i) and (4) through (9),

(d)(2), (e)(1)(ii) (e)(l)(i) and (ii) and (2), and (g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY adding to

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Section 21-336.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1990 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

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

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21-301.

(b) (1) "Bottled water" means any [drinking] water that is sealed in bottles or
other containers for:

(i) Drinking;

(ii) Cooking; or

(iii) Other purposes making it likely that the water will be ingested by
human beings.

(2) (i) "Bottled water" may:

1. Include natural or added carbonation; and

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