WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 534

(C)     ALL HUMAN REMAINS AND ASSOCIATED FUNERARY OBJECTS OBTAINED
IN VIOLATION OF THIS SUBHEADING OR OF ARTICLE 27, §§ 265 THROUGH 267 OF THE
CODE ARE SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATION BY THE STATE FOR MANAGEMENT, CARE,
AND ADMINISTRATION BY THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST UNTIL A
DETERMINATION OF FINAL DISPOSITION AS PROVIDED BY LAW.

(D)     NOTHING IN THIS SECTION MAY BE CONSTRUED TO INTERFERE WITH
THE NORMAL OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE CEMETERY
INCLUDING CORRECTION OF IMPROPER BURIAL SITING, AND, WITH THE CONSENT
OF ANY PERSON WHO WOULD QUALIFY AS AN HEIR AS DEFINED IN THE ESTATES
AND TRUSTS ARTICLE, MOVING THE REMAINS WITHIN A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE
CEMETERY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1994.

Approved May 26, 1994.

CHAPTER 534
(House Bill 152)

AN ACT concerning

Health - Notification of Contact Exposure to a Contagious Disease or Virus - Postmortem

Examination

FOR the purpose of requiring certain notice to certain persons of possible contact
exposure to a contagious disease or virus while those persons are transporting a
deceased person to a medical care facility or while acting in the performance of duty
under certain circumstances; requiring notification be provided to certain persons
of the results of certain tests under certain circumstances; requiring certain persons
to develop certain procedures; providing certain immunity to certain persons under
certain circumstances; specifying that certain persons may not refuse to treat or
transport certain other persons; defining certain terms; and generally relating to the
notification of possible contact exposure to a contagious disease or virus of certain
persons.

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 18-213.2

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1990 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

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

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