Ch. 298                                    1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 5-561(c) and (h)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 5-561(g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 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 - Family Law

5-561.

(c) The following individuals shall obtain a criminal background investigation
under this Part VT of this subtitle:

(1)     an individual who is seeking to adopt a child through a local department
of social services or licensed child placement agency;

(2)     an adult relative with whom a child, committed to a local department of
social services, is placed by the local department of social services; and

(3)     any adult known by a local department of social services to be residing in
a:

(i) family day care home required to be registered under Title 5 of this
article; [or]

(ii) home of an adult relative of a child with whom the child,
committed to a local department of social services, is placed by the local department of
social services [.];

(III)   FOSTER CARE HOME OR CHILD CARE HOME REQUIRED TO BE
APPROVED UNDER TITLE 5 OF THIS ARTICLE; OR

(IV)   HOME OF AN INDIVIDUAL SEEKING TO ADOPT A CHILD
THROUGH A LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES OR A LICENSED CHILD
PLACEMENT AGENCY.

(g) A person who is required to have a criminal background investigation under this
Part VI of this subtitle shall pay for:

(1) the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
for conducting the criminal background investigation;

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