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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="16-605" title_number="16" title_name="Statutory Liens on Personal Property" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Hospital's Lien">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The clerk of the circuit court shall provide a hospital lien docket. On the filing of a notice of lien under the provisions of this subtitle, the clerk shall enter in the hospital lien docket:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The name of the injured patient;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The name of the person alleged to be liable for the patient’s injuries;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The date of the accident; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The name of the hospital making the claim.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The clerk shall index the hospital lien under the name of the injured patient.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On presentation of a release of a lien, the clerk shall note in the docket the date when the release was filed and shall note on the release that it was recorded. A release bearing a note that it was recorded or a notation in the docket showing the release constitutes prima facie evidence of the release of the lien.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The clerk shall collect not more than $2 for the filing, recording, and indexing of each lien. He also shall collect not more than $2 for filing a release of the lien and for noting the filing of the release in the docket and on the release.</text>
  </level>
</section>
