# Sec. 2-227. Exceptions to subdivision restrictions

Codified through Bill No. CB-018-2026, adopted May 12, 2026, effective July 24, 2026. Source: Municode, Supplement 2026 Update 2. Editorial notes and legislative history omitted.

## Sec. 2-227. Exceptions to subdivision restrictions

Prince George's County, Md., Code § 2-227 (2026)

(a) Nothing in this Subdivision shall prohibit the hiring, assignment, compensation, or discharge of persons by an employer, the classification or referral of persons for employment by an employment agency, the classification of members of a labor organization, or the admission to any program of apprenticeship, training, or retraining because of discrimination where it can be demonstrated that it is a bona fide occupational qualification which is reasonable, necessary, and relevant to the normal operation of a particular business or enterprise.

(b) A school, college, university, or other educational institution may hire and employ persons of a particular religion if such school, college, university, or other educational institution is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other religious organization or corporation, or if the curriculum of the school, college, university, or other educational institution is designed to comply, in whole or in part, with the doctrines or tenets of a particular church, synagogue, mosque, or temple.