1716 ARTICLE 41

An. Code, 1924, sec. 3. 1922, ch. 29, sec. 2 (p. 40).

3. The executive and administrative offices, boards, commissions or
other governmental agencies now existing which do not constitute one of
the said departments, are placed in the said departments as hereinafter
provided; and every State office, board, commission or other governmental
agency created during this or any subsequent session of the General Assem-
bly shall be placed in one of said departments. Each of the said departments
shall be constituted and shall have and exercise the rights, powers, duties,
obligations and functions hereinafter provided. Any officers, boards or com-
missions not referred to in this Article shall not be affected hereby.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 29, sec. 3 (p. 40). 1939, ch. 70, sec. 4.

4. Where an existing office, board, commission, department or other
governmental agency is abolished or superseded by any Act of the Legisla-
ture, all books, papers, maps, charts, plans, records, documents and all
supplies, equipment and other property in the possession of the same, or
of any member or officer thereof, shall be delivered to or shall vest in the
department to which the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions
of the agency so abolished or superseded are transferred, or to or in the
successor to the agency so abolished or superseded; and where some only
of the rights, powers, duties, obligations or functions of an existing office,
board, commission, department or other governmental agency are trans-
ferred to another department, then the books, papers, maps, charts, plans,
records, documents and all supplies, equipment and other property relating
to the rights, powers, duties, obligations or functions so transferred shall
be delivered to or shall vest in the department to which such transfer is
made; and where none of the rights, powers, duties, obligations or func-
tions of an existing office, board, commission, department or other govern-
mental agency is transferred to another department, then the books, papers,
maps, charts, plans, records, documents and all supplies, equipment and
other property of the existing office, board, commission, department or
other governmental agency so abolished, shall be delivered to the Board
of Public Works.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1922, ch. 29, sec. 4 (p. 41). 1939, ch. 70, sec. 5.

5. All persons in the classified service under the provisions of Article
64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, known as the Merit System Law,
who are employed by any officer, board, commission, department or other
governmental agency, abolished or superseded by any Act of the Legis-
lature (unless otherwise provided in such Act), shall retain their merit
system status, and shall be eligible for re-employment in their respective
classified service positions in the department in which the powers and
duties of such agency become vested, or elsewhere in the State Merit Sys-
tem service, in accordance with the Merit System Law, and the rules and
regulations made pursuant thereto.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1922, ch. 29, sec. 5 (p. 41). 1939, ch. 70, sec. 6.

6. All petitions, hearings and other proceedings pending before any
officer, board, commission, department or other governmental agency which
is abolished or superseded by any Act of the Legislature, and all prosecu-
tions, legal or other proceedings and investigations begun by or before
any such agency so abolished or superseded, and not completed at the