Ch. 530                                    1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

PROCEDURE TO TEST THE TRUTH AND ACCURACY OF INFORMATION SUBMITTED
TO THE CREDENTIALING ORGANIZATION.

(E) THIS SECTION DOES NOT PROHIBIT A CREDENTIALING ORGANIZATION
HOSPITAL RELATED INSTITUTION, OR HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION
FROM USING ITS OWN PRIMARY SOURCE VERIFICATION PROCEDURE.

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

Approved May 14, 1996.

CHAPTER 530
(House Bill 1212)

AN ACT concerning

Estates and Trusts - Register of Wills - Fees and Expenses

FOR the purpose of repealing the requirement that a register of wills distribute certain
fees annually to the Comptroller; repealing the requirement that the Comptroller
deposit certain fees into the General Fund of the State; repealing the requirement
that a register of wills include certain information concerning employees in the
annual account of fees and receipts to the Comptroller; repealing the requirement
that employees verify certain information; making this Act an emergency measure;
requiring the Comptroller to deposit certain fees received in the General Fund of
the State; and generally relating to the office of the register of wills.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Estates and Trusts
Section 2-207

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

2-207.

(a) (1) Every register shall return annually to the Comptroller a full and
accurate account of the fees and receipts of his office and of the expenses incident to the
proper conduct of his office.

(2) The account shall be verified and in the form and supported by the proof
prescribed by the Comptroller.

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