268 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 85

title "Hospitals", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

525. (Advisory Board.) An Advisory Board of

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members, each of whom shall hold office
for a period of five (5) years, shall be appointed by the
Governor to make recommendations to the State Board of
Health and to assist in the establishment of minimum
standards under the provisions of this sub-title and any
amendments thereto. Three (3) members of said Advisory
Board shall be appointed from a list of names submitted
by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.
Four (4) members of said Advisory Board shall be ap-
pointed from a list of names submitted by the Maryland-
District of Columbia Hospital Association of which

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ONE (1) SHALL BE SUPERINTENDENT OF A MARY-
LAND HOSPITAL, ONE (1) SHALL BE A PERSON
WHO HAS BEEN AN OWNER OR OPERATOR OF A
LICENSED NURSING HOME WITHIN THE STATE OF
MARYLAND FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN
THREE YEARS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF HIS AP-
POINTMENT, one (1) shall be a trustee of a Maryland
hospital and at least one (1) of whom shall be a member
of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland,

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At least four (4) members of the Ad-
visory Board shall be doctors of medicine and members of
the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. [Of the
original committee, one (1) member shall be appointed
for a term of one (1) year, two (2) for a term of two (2)
years, one (1) for a term of three (3) years, two (2) for
a term of four (4) years, and one (1) for a term of five
(5) years, from June 1, 1945, and thereafter their suc-
cessors shall be appointed for a term of five (5) years.]
The members of the said Advisory Board who are in office
on June 1,1954, shall continue for the balance of the terms
for which they were respectively appointed.

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WHEN THE FIRST VACANCY ON THE