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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 441
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Approved May 16, 2002.
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CHAPTER 441
(Senate Bill 3)
AN ACT concerning
Maryland Safe Haven Act
FOR the purpose of establishing procedures for the relinquishment of certain
newborns; establishing immunity for certain persons under this Act;
establishing procedures for hospitals that accept a relinquished newborn;
establishing procedures for a nonrelinquishing natural parent to retain parental
rights; establishing procedures for a natural parent to revoke the intent to
relinquish a newborn; establishing procedures for a court to make certain
determinations regarding a relinquished newborn providing immunity from
civil liability and criminal prosecution for certain persons who leave an
unharmed newborn with a certain person under certain circumstances; requiring
the approval of a certain person to leave a newborn under certain circumstances;
requiring certain persons who accept a newborn to take certain actions within a
certain time; providing immunity from civil liability and criminal prosecution
for certain persons, hospitals, and other facilities under certain circumstances;
requiring the Secretary of Human Resources to adopt certain regulations;
defining certain terms; providing that the provisions of this Act are severable;
and generally relating to relinquishment safe abandonment of a newborn.
BY adding to
Article—Family Law
Section 5-7B-01 through 5-7B-04, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle
"Subtitle 7B. Safe Havens for Newborns"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 5-641
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
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