1188                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 556

CHAPTER 556
(Senate Bill 653)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 19 of
Article 59 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume), title "Lunatics and Insane," subtitle "Department of
Mental Hygiene," to add the Maryland Metropolitan Washing-
ton Mental Retardation Center to those hospitals under the juris-
diction of the Department of Mental Hygiene, to appoint a super-
intendent thereof and to set out his qualifications.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 19 of Article 59 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Lunatics and Insane," subtitle
"Department of Mental Hygiene," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

19.

Spring Grove State Hospital, Springfield State Hospital, the
Eastern Shore State Hospital, Crownsville State Hospital, Henryton
State Hospital, [and] Rosewood State Hospital, and the Maryland
Metropolitan Washington Mental Retardation Center, shall hereafter
exercise their functions under the supervision, direction and control
of the Department of Mental Hygiene. Upon every occurrence of a
vacancy in the position of superintendent of any of said institutions,
the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, shall appoint the successor.
Each superintendent, except the superintendent at Rosewood [and]
, Henryton, and the Maryland Metropolitan Washington Mental Re-
tardation Center, shall be a trained psychiatrist and shall be familiar
with the administration of institutions for the care and treatment of
the insane. The superintendent of the Rosewood State Hospital shall
be a physician, preferably qualified in psychiatry or pediatrics, and
preferably with experience in the field of mental retardation and
familiar with the administration of institutions for the care and
treatment of the mentally retarded. The qualifications of the super-
intendent of Henryton State Hospital and the Maryland Metropolitan
Washington Mental Retardation Center shall be as determined by
the State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene from time to time.
Their appointment shall not be subject to the provisions of the merit
system law except that the person who is superintendent of Henryton
State Hospital on June 1, 1963 shall be subject to the provisions of
the merit system law, and they shall be subject to removal by the
Commissioner of Mental Hygiene for incompetency or misconduct.
Each of said superintendents shall receive such compensation as
shall be provided in the budget, shall be responsible to the Com-
missioner of Mental Hygiene for the operation of the institution in
his charge, and shall submit to the Department such reports, includ-
ing medical and financial, as the Department of Mental Hygiene
may request. It shall be the duty of each superintendent to inform
the Department of Mental Hygiene of the conditions in his institu-
tion, and to order that such changes as seem desirable for the
welfare of the patients be put into effect, with the approval of the
Department of Mental Hygiene.

All other appointments of personnel at each of said institutions
shall be made by the superintendent thereof under the provision of