Ch. 7                                       2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - State Government

Section 10-510(b)(l)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1999 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 - State Government

10-510.

(b) (1) If a public body fails to comply with § 10-505, § 10-506, § 10-507, §
10-508, or § 10-509(c) of this subtitle [and a person is affected adversely, the] ANY
person may file with a circuit court that has venue a petition that asks the court to:

(i) determine the applicability of those sections;

(ii) require the public body to comply with those sections; or

(iii) void the action of the public body.

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

Enacted January 11, 2005.

CHAPTER 7
(House Bill 232 of the 2004 Regular Session)

AN ACT concerning

Family Law - Adoption Search, Contact, and Reunion Services - Siblings

FOR the purpose of expanding the adoption search, contact, and reunion services
program within the Social Services Administration to include services to siblings
of adopted individuals; authorizing a sibling of an adopted individual to apply to
receive adoption search, contact, and reunion services under certain
circumstances; requiring a confidential intermediary to attempt to contact a
sibling of an adopted individual under certain circumstances; requiring the
Director of the Social Services Administration to adopt regulations concerning a
certain agreement between a confidential intermediary and a sibling of an
adopted individual; establishing that the consent of a natural parent to an
adoption or guardianship of a child is not valid unless the consent contains a
certain notice; defining a certain term; altering a certain definition; and
generally relating to adoption search, contact, and reunion services.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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