1374                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 866

560.

The [State] Board [of Health] is hereby authorized to issue
licenses regardless of type of ownership to open, maintain and operate
hospitals [which] or related institutions when the facilities of the
hospital or the related institution, after inspection, are found to com-
ply with the provisions of this subtitle and the rules and regulations
adopted thereunder HEREUNDER by the [State] Board [of
Health]. No license granted [hereunder] shall be assignable or
transferrable. [A license issued to any hospital may be revoked by
the Board, for violation of the provisions of this subtitle or of any
rule or regulation validly adopted hereunder, provided the licensee
shall have had an opportunity to be heard at a public hearing be-
fore the Board, with not less than ten days' notice thereof, and at
said hearing he shall have the opportunity to be represented by
counsel.] The Board may, FOR CAUSE SHOWN, revoke any license
issued by it to a hospital or related institution after giving the licensee
a hearing prior to revocation. The hearing shall be held after ten
days' notice to the licensee, and he shall have an opportunity to be
represented by counsel at the hearing.

561.

(a)    The [State] Board [of Health] shall cause each hospital and
related institution in the State of Maryland to be periodically in-
spected [under] for compliance with the rules and regulations [to
be] established by [said] the Board [of Health], as hereinafter pro-
vided.

[Any hospital desiring to make any alteration or addition to its
buildings and plant or any change in any of its facilities may, before
making such change, alteration or addition, request the State Board
of Health to approve the same, provided, however, that nothing con-
tained in this subtitle shall be construed as in any way superseding
the provisions of any local building code now in existence or hereafter
enacted. Thereupon, the State Board of Health shall investigate
the change, alteration or addition so contemplated to be made and as
soon thereafter as reasonably practical shall notify the licensee that
said change, alteration or addition is approved or disapproved with
such recommendations as said State Board of Health shall care to
make.]

(b)    No new hospital or related institution shall be established and
no hospital or related institution shall make any conversion, altera-
tion, or addition to its existing building or plant affecting its func-
tional structure or normal bed capacity without the prior approval
of plans and specifications by the Board. The Board's approval of
plans and specifications shall be granted if it finds that the hospital
or related institution meets the minimum standards set forth in the
regulations adopted by the Board under Section 562.

(c)    Applications for approval under subsection (b) above shall be
made in writing and accompanied by the documents, drawings or
other information specified by the Board.

(d)     The Board shall promptly review the application and sup-
porting documents and investigate the proposed new facility, or con-
version, alteration or addition to be made or constructed for con-
formity with applicable regulations and shall within thirty (80)
days notify the applicant of approval or disapproval. In case of dis-