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CHAPTER 570

(Senate Bill 811)

AN ACT concerning

Juvenile Services Administration - Advisory Board

FOR the purpose of expanding the members and certain
responsibilities of the Advisory Board of Juvenile
Services Administration and clarifying generally the
duties of the Board; and making certain stylistic
changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 52A - Juvenile Services

Section 3

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 52A - Juvenile Services

3.

(a) An Advisory Board of Juvenile Services is created
and established to be attached to the State [Department of]
Juvenile Services ADMINISTRATION. The Board consists of
twelve (12) persons to be appointed by the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene for overlapping three-year terms,
with four (4) members of the first Advisory Board to be
appointed for three (3) years from July 1, 1966; four (4)
for two (2) years from July 1, 1966; and four (4) for one
(1) year from July 1, 1966. Thereafter, all members of the
Board shall be appointed by the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene for terms of three years. Members of the
Advisory Board of Juvenile Services shall be representative
of the State Department of Education (1), the State
Department of Health (1), the State Department of Mental
Hygiene (1), the Department of Maryland State Police (1),
the State Department of Social Services (1), the judiciary
of the State (3), voluntary child welfare agencies (1), and
three (3) members of the public at large who shall be
selected on the basis of their experience and interest in
minors and juvenile problems. Any member who has served two
consecutive terms on the Advisory Board of Juvenile Services
is ineligible to succeed himself for the term immediately
following the second of the two terms. In case of a vacancy
on the Board for any reason, the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene shall appoint a member for the remainder of
the unexpired term in the same manner as he appointed the
original member.