MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        673

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.

CHAPTER 215
(Senate Bill 308)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2 of
Article 22 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement
Volume), title "Postmortem Examiners," removing the restriction
as to the number of Medical Examiners and other professional
staff to be appointed by the Postmortem Examiners' Commission.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 2 of Article 22 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1966 Replacement Volume), title "Postmortem Examiners," be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

2.

The said Commission is hereby authorized and directed to appoint
[five SIX medical examiners, one to be known as chief medical exam-
iner, ONE ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER,
and the other four as assistant medical examiners, a toxicologist, an
assistant toxicologist, TWO ASSISTANT TOXICOLOGISTS, and a
serologist] professional personnel such as medical examiners (one of
whom shall be designated as chief medical examiner), toxicologists,
and sexologists as may be determined to be necessary by the Com-
mission, AN ADDITIONAL MEDICAL EXAMINER KNOWN AS

A DEPUTY CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER AND AN ADDI-
TIONAL ASSISTANT TOXICOLOGIST, and, subject to the ap-
proval of the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City, to fix their
compensation which shall be paid by the Comptroller of the State of
Maryland out of that portion of the funds collected by the Racing
Commission allocated and paid to the several counties of the State
and Baltimore City. The [chief medical examiner and the assistant]
medical examiners shall be licensed doctors of medicine, and shall
have had at least two years post-graduate training in pathology. The
said Commission shall appoint, to such extent as may be authorized
by the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City, such other professional
or technical personnel, clerks and other employees as may be neces-
sary for the proper administration of the Department and at such
compensation as may be provided for by the said Board of Estimates
in the ordinance of estimates of Baltimore City. Such other profes-
sional and technical personnel and the clerks and employees shall be
appointed in accordance with the provisions of Sections 142 to 156,
inclusive, of the Baltimore City Charter (1949 Edition), known as
the merit system.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Commis-
sion from employing the services of physicians on a contract basis
for part-time services as may be authorized by the Board of Esti-
mates of Baltimore City.