ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 158

(3) HAVE A MECHANISM TO RECEIVE COMPLAINTS OR INQUIRIES FROM
A SELLER OR BIDDER; AND

(4) HAVE A MECHANISM TO MAKE A SELLER'S OR BIDDER'S
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO ANOTHER SELLER OR BIDDER WHO
ALLEGES FRAUD OR DECEPTION IN AN AUCTION TRANSACTION.

SECTION 2. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2004.

Approved April 27, 2004.

CHAPTER 158
(House Bill 211)

AN ACT concerning                                                                                                                         

Family Law - Adoption - Certificates of Birth

FOR the purpose of repealing the provision of law making the entry of an adoption
order by a court as grounds for the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to
make a new certificate of birth for an individual who was born outside the
United States; repealing a certain qualification that a foreign-born adopted
person must meet before the Secretary may prepare and register a certificate of
foreign birth; and generally relating to certificates of birth.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 4-211(b) and (i)(l)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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

Article - Health - General

4-211.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the Secretary may
make a new certificate of birth for an individual who was born outside the United
States if one of the following occurred in this State:

(1)     The previously unwed parents of the individual have married each
other after the birth of the individual;

(2)     A court of competent jurisdiction in this State has entered an order as
to parentage[,] OR legitimation[, or adoption]; or

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