MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                          245

3.

(a)   Created; appointment and terms of members; vacancies.—An
Advisory Board of Juvenile Services is created and established to be
attached to the State Department of Juvenile Services. The Board
consists of twelve (12) persons to be appointed by the [Governor]
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene for overlapping three-year
terms, with four (4) members of the first Advisory Board to be
appointed for three (3) years from July 1, 1966; four (4) for two
(2) years from July 1, 1966; and four (4) for one (1) year from
July 1, 1966. Thereafter, all members of the Board shall be appointed
by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene for terms of three
years. Members of the Advisory Board of Juvenile Services shall
be representative of the State Department of Education (1), the
State Department of Health (1), the State Department of Mental
Hygiene (1), the Department of Maryland State Police (1), the
State Department of Social Services (1), the judiciary of the State
(3), voluntary child welfare agencies (1), and three (3) members
of the public at large who shall be selected on the basis of their ex-
perience and interest in minors and juvenile problems. Any member
who has served two consecutive terms on the advisory Board of
Juvenile Services is ineligible to succeed himself for the term imme-
diately following the second of the two terms. In case of a vacancy
on the Board for any reason, the [Governor] Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene shall appoint a member for the remainder of the
unexpired term in the same manner as he appointed the original
member.

(b)   Chairman; meetings; secretary; compensation and expenses
of members; duties of Board.—The [Governor] Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene shall designate one member of the Advisory
Board to serve as chairman. The Board shall meet regularly on the
call of the chairman, not less often than once in every three (3)
months. One of the members of the Board shall serve as secretary,
upon designation by the chairman, and shall keep and preserve full
and accurate minutes of the meetings. The members of the Advisory
Board shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be
paid the reasonable expenses necessary for the discharge of their
official duties. The Advisory Board shall act in a general consultative
and advisory capacity to the Director of the Department of Juvenile
Services with regard to the several aspects of the State's program of
juvenile services. Included in this responsibility is the duty to recom-
mend to the Director of the Department of Juvenile Services policies
and programs to improve the State's juvenile services. The Advisory
Board also shall participate in interpreting the objectives of the De-
partment to the public and in planning for the development and
utilization of all available resources for the promotion of needs of
the Department.

5.

(a) Coordinating agency for enumerated juvenile services.—The
State Department of Juvenile S