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(ii) _[_ Is approved by the Health Care Financing Administration of
the United States Department of Health and Human Services; or

(iii) Meets the standards established jointly by the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the
Maryland Hospital Association, and the Maryland Radiology Society] HAS ATTAINED
OBTAINED A CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL FROM THE FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATION AS SPECIFIED IN THE FEDERAL MAMMOGRAPHY QUALITY
STANDARDS ACT OF 1992.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the penalty for a violation of
this section may not exceed $1,000.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved May 14, 1996.

CHAPTER 417
(Senate Bill 724)

AN ACT concerning

Estates and Trusts - First Notices - Ordinary First-Class Mail

FOR the purpose of repealing the requirement that certain first notices be deposited as
restricted delivery mail; establishing that certain first notices are sufficient if
deposited as ordinary first-class mail; authorizing the orphans' court to require or a
personal representative to elect to have certain first notices delivered by restricted
delivery mail at the expense of the estate; and generally relating to required notices
under the Estates and Trusts Article.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Estates and Trusts
Section 1-103(a) and (b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - Estates and Trusts

1-103.

(a) (1) Unless personal service or some other method of notice is expressly
required in this article or by the Maryland Rules, the first notice required [ or permitted]
to be given a person is sufficient if deposited as [restricted delivery mail] ORDINARY

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