PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                               Ch. 84

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1995.

Approved April 11, 1995.

CHAPTER 84
(House Bill 808)

AN ACT concerning

Birth Certificates - Preparation and Filing - Name of Father - Birth on Common Carrier

FOR the purpose of altering the time for preparing and filing birth certificates requiring
that certain information regarding birth certificates be provided within certain time
frames; requiring, under certain circumstances, the child's father's name be entered
on the birth certificate; clarifying what is considered to be a child's place of birth
under certain circumstances; and generally relating to birth registration.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Heath - General
Section 4-208

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article - Health - General

4-208.

(a) (1) Within [72 hours] 5 DAYS after a birth occurs in an institution, OR EN
ROUTE TO THE INSTITUTION, the administrative head of the institution or a designee of
the administrative head shall:

(i) Prepare, on the form that the Secretary provides, a certificate of
birth;

(ii) Secure each signature that is required on the certificate; and

(iii) File the certificate.

(2)     The attending physician shall provide [or confirm] the date of birth and
medical information that are required on the certificate WITHIN 72 HOURS AFTER THE
BIRTH.

(3)     Upon the birth of a child to an unmarried woman in an institution, the
administrative head of the institution or the designee of the administrative head shall:

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