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to be designated safety inspectors, who shall be qualified and trained
in occupational safety, and who shall be charged with responsibility
for enforcement of safety codes in construction and other hazardous
industries in the State at large, with salaries and travel expenses
provided in the annual budget. The Commissioner of Labor and
Industry shall further appoint at least three additional inspectors,
who shall be technically qualified, and who shall be charged with
responsibility for enforcement of safety codes relative to amusement
rides or devices and temporary and/or permanent structures at car-
nivals, fairs and amusement parks or other areas where such rides,
devices or structures may be situated. These inspectors shall also
be charged with responsibility for enforcement of safety codes for
passenger and freight elevators in permanent installations and
workmen's and material hoists on construction projects with sal-
aries and travel expenses of such inspectors provided in the annual
budget. [The Director and] All [other] full-time employees of the
[Division of Industrial Safety] Division of Safety Engineering and
Education shall be subject generally to the provisions of Article 64A
of the Code, title "Merit System".

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 100
(Senate Bill 273)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 30 of
Article 89 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Cumulative
Supplement), title "Department of Labor and Industry," subtitle
"Occupational Safety," to empower and authorize the Commis-
sioner of Labor and Industry to deputize qualified insurance com-
pany elevator inspectors to assist in enforcement of safety codes
for elevators and to formulate rules and regulations covering
those so deputized and reports required of inspections made.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 30 of Article 89 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Cumulative Supplement), title "Department of Labor and
Industry," subtitle "Occupational Safety," be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

30.

It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to
aid and assist employers in carrying out their responsibilities under
Section 29 and to suggest and recommend to employers or groups of
employers methods and procedures by which they may develop
safety programs to carry out such responsibilities. Within the De-
partment of Labor and Industry, there shall be a Division of In-
dustrial Safety, under the direction of a Director of Industrial
Safety, which on behalf of and under the Commissioner of Labor